That’s the typical reaction and thinking.
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That wouldn’t prevent a situation like Saturday from ever happening again.
A similar play happened to Alabama against its rival Auburn in 2013. That play resulted in an all-time fantastic finish that left Oklahoma State as an undeserving loser.
While it’s Week Three of the season, that result from Week Two still has the college football world buzzing, with the loudest noise coming from Big 12 Country. They also allowed CMU to play them toe-to-toe at home when Oklahoma State was a big favorite. With a strong Pitt team visiting Saturday, he was hoping to put a period on the sentence.
“You get right back to the decision has been made, and you move forward”, Gundy said.
That’s not why we watch games on Saturday afternoons.
For at least Monday, that’s a hard task.
The Cowboys were penalized for intentional grounding on a play created to run out the clock.
“We shouldn’t have been that close … what’s done is done”, he said.
Central Michigan produced a miraculous play to claim an incredibly unlikely victory over Oklahoma State on the weekend, upsetting the odds and improving their record to 2-0 this season.
“This is definitely a major memory for me, just to be able to do this with my teammates, my family here, coaching staff and athletic department here, it’s just unreal”, Pumphrey said.
While there will be no overturning of the game’s results for the egregious mistake made by the officials that allowed CMU to win the game on a Hail Mary and lateral, both groups of officials will serve two-game suspensions. Ray-Ray McCloud was cruising toward the end zone for a touchdown on a punt return when he dropped the ball short of the goal line, disallowing the score.
“While I’m disappointed in myself, I am also disappointed that we had 10 rules officials who didn’t properly apply the rule”, Gundy said Sunday in a statement released by the school. “You use our officials or you don’t sign the contracts”. The Big 12 handed down a similar punishment for its two officials in the replay booth, adding that they will not be permitted to work a bowl game in the postseason. Those mistakes happen and they’re part of the game. The referees incorrectly ruled intentional grounding on the play.
Still, Miami-Duke could have been considered an exercise in bad judgment – human error – by the replay crew. “In my mind, it is incomprehensible that a misapplication of the rules after time has expired can’t be corrected”.
“Despite the error, this will not change the outcome of the contest”. “They’re all great”, coach Dabo Swinney said before addressing some issues. “It has been discussed in the past”. But if you think about this a little harder, does the rule actually make sense? “The longer the game went, and we worked our way back into it, you could feel it”.
“We’ve got to go get ’em”, said linebacker Devante Averette. This week, Oklahoma State fell out of the rankings with the disputed loss.
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“We have a 10-minute review on whether it’s a first down or not”, Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. I felt like I could deflect some of that from the players. I need to be – which is basically we – be better prepared. In our program, we talk all the time about controlling the things we can control and not getting caught up in the things we can’t control.
