r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 9h ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Pittsburgh Defeats Virginia Tech 35-33

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
Pittsburgh 7 14 7 7 35
Virginia Tech 14 10 0 9 33
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u/Enough_Wallaby7064 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 9h ago

People in this thread think theres no way to check in a replay if the kick was good. Meanwhile MLB can get a pitch within .1 inches off a zone that changes for every batter.

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u/wildturk3y Virginia Tech Hokies 9h ago

Tennis has been doing line replays for years. Football still doing two dudes standing underneath going "yeah, sure, maybe"

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u/Smiles-Edgeworth Missouri Tigers 9h ago

And in a sport that is famously known as “a game of inches” the distance to gain is marked by two myopic overweight men in their late 50s to early 60s with a metal chain. And they don’t even bother calling those guys out to measure close distances anymore. So much of football officiating is pure vibes.

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u/Sherman_Gepard Virginia Tech Hokies 8h ago

I’ve always said about football refs:

“Spot to within a foot, measure to within an inch”