CFB 2021 Week 3

Fred in Lynn

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Not Lynn (or Ocean Side)
They are SEC refs so clearly have an agenda imo
To be fair, they did make a brutally bad spot on Auburn in the first half, but they reviewed and overturned that one.

I just think they made bad judgment calls on the Mustipher run and Nix grounding. Not sure why you’d call the former dead when the pile is still moving. The missed down thing was pure amateur hour. They should all be suspended. If they can have a rule that a player is ejected for the game and the first half of the next game, they can fine/suspend officials for such an awful screwup.
 

EvilEmpire

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Fresno State's offense looks good against UCLA. Not sure the defense will hold up though. This might look like an old WAC score before it is done.
 

CFB_Rules

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Just saw the Penn State-Auburn fiasco. Total train wreck. Damn near unforgivable considering the coaching staff brought it to the officials attention and they have replay available to go back and look. Heads should roll.

Edit: And I know several of those guys. What a nightmare.
 

scottyno

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Just saw the Penn State-Auburn fiasco. Total train wreck. Damn near unforgivable considering the coaching staff brought it to the officials attention and they have replay available to go back and look. Heads should roll.

Edit: And I know several of those guys. What a nightmare.
They claimed after the game that they discovered the mistake during the media timeout after the punt and by rule they couldn't go back and fix it at that point. Do you know if that's correct, and if so is that an SEC rule?

I ask because just yesterday I was watching a replay of a game from last week, Eastern Kentucky @ Louisville, and almost the exact situation came up, EKU was called for a spot foul hold on 1st down that should have made it 1st and 11, but instead they switched the down marker to 2nd down. EKU eventually punted on 3rd and 14 with the down marker showing 4th, and then during the media timeout the refs went to video review, realized the mistake, and said they were going to redo the play with the correct down. EKU got 9 yards and punted anyway, so it didn't make a difference, but that's not the point.
 

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Fuck you UCLA.

Haener is a hero. Even if he looks like the QB from The Waterboy.

Edit. So many turnovers though. Same thing with the Oregon game, which they should have won.
 
I turned off the Georgia Tech-Clemson game after Tech was stopped at the 1 on what I assumed was their final possession. I saw the final score listed as being 14-8 instead of 14-6 and thought it was a typo. Now I see that Clemson, from their own 1 yard line, ran a play with 15 seconds from a shotgun formation, and the running back was hit just outside the end zone, fumbled backward across the goal line, and was very lucky to recover it for a safety instead of Tech getting a touchdown. If Tech had recovered and somehow gone on to win the game, that would have been worse than the Joe Pisarcik/Herman Edwards play in the Miracle at the Meadowlands, wouldn't it?
 

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They claimed after the game that they discovered the mistake during the media timeout after the punt and by rule they couldn't go back and fix it at that point. Do you know if that's correct, and if so is that an SEC rule?

I ask because just yesterday I was watching a replay of a game from last week, Eastern Kentucky @ Louisville, and almost the exact situation came up, EKU was called for a spot foul hold on 1st down that should have made it 1st and 11, but instead they switched the down marker to 2nd down. EKU eventually punted on 3rd and 14 with the down marker showing 4th, and then during the media timeout the refs went to video review, realized the mistake, and said they were going to redo the play with the correct down. EKU got 9 yards and punted anyway, so it didn't make a difference, but that's not the point.
It's definitely not an SEC rule. It's kind of ambiguous actually. Here is the actual rule:

"The number of a down may be corrected any time within that series of downs or before the ball is legally next put in play after that series."

So let's say the team thinks it is 4th down, and it is actually 3rd. They go for it and come up short. Their series of downs has ended. But if the error is discovered before the next snap, they can go back and give the offense one more play (real 4th down).

The complicating factor here is the fact that the offense punted. You can "fix" the down by saying that they punted on 3rd down, but there isn't really any rules support for just erasing a play and re-doing it because the down was wrong.

That being said, there is always an element of "rules be damned, just get it right" when it comes to these situations. I bet the ACC crew feels pretty good about how their game went compared to that Auburn-PSU crew.
 

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Week 4 but Ohio State opened as a 53 point favorite versus Akron. That's a bit much. It has since dropped to 49.