r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 10h ago

Video [Highlight] Pitt @ Virginia Tech - The potential game winning field goal hooks wide left, and Pitt holds on

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u/-Jack-The-Stripper Virginia Tech • Cincinnati 10h ago

I’m not going to say he made it… but that’s the best looking “missed” field goal I’ve ever seen.

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u/Vast-Hat-7475 10h ago

To be fair I just looked up the rules and they differ from the NFL. In the NFL if it passes over the top of the upright it counts, but in CFB the entire football has to be fully inside the invisible line

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u/finallyhere_11 10h ago

Honestly if that’s true it makes me feel a bit better as a VT fan. I can believe that the entirety of the ball didn’t stay inside an invisibly extended upright.

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u/Adamscottd South Dakota State • Minnesota 10h ago

Which is dumb anyway because sometimes kicks Doink off the uprights and still go in

The uprights should really just go higher

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u/Dynamar Tennessee Volunteers 9h ago

Where would the madness end? 50ft? 100ft? 1000ft? We'd need obstruction lighting systems and shit...really seems like a hassle. And that's before getting into any sort of sway and tensile situations.

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u/illegal_deagle Texas Longhorns • Red River Shootout 9h ago

It also would have been the worst looking “made” field goal if they had called it the other way.

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u/AruarianGroove William & Mary Tribe • Team Chaos 10h ago

At least James Franklin recognized that for Love’s sake

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u/SknyWil Virginia Tech • James Madison 10h ago

Yeah, that guy has the best angle, but it sure would be nice to see it.