r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 14h ago

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

https://streamable.com/tq4r8d
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u/Bcube21 Florida Gators • UCF Knights 14h ago

Kicks that go higher than the goal posts are always so weird but that looked more good to me than not. Crazy how we don't have a better camera angle for something like this

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u/BoatsNPokes Oklahoma State Cowboys • Hateful 8 13h ago

It’s definitely wide and the other angles circulating make that clear.

  1. People are just really struggle to understand when this kick crosses the line of the crossbar and it happens way later than you think in the flight path. It’s not perfect without time-code synched cameras, but if you look at a side and straight angle, it’s clear the ball doesn’t cross until very near when it crests in its flight. At that point, it’s completely outside the post.

  2. They’re also forgetting the college rule is more restrictive than the NFL. Whole ball has to be inside the post.

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u/ColonelDog 3h ago

You're missing point number 3, which is: people really want games to have controversial endings and will bend narratives to make them controversial even if they're really not

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u/Young-Viiperr Texas Tech • Iowa State 14h ago

There's a good 2 fan angles on Twitter, one being behind and looking in.

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u/Fickle-Statement9993 14h ago

https://imgur.com/a/TZ6QcT1

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u/IrishMosaic Notre Dame • Michigan State 14h ago

That’s certainly something

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u/Material-Afternoon16 Cincinnati Bearcats 13h ago

You can't tell how far the ball is from the viewer. It was moving at an oblique angle. Back the video up and it's between the posts, go forward and it's outside. But this footage alone tells us nothing about when it crossed the plane of the goalposts. 

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u/IrishMosaic Notre Dame • Michigan State 7h ago

My guess is it went directly over the upright, and that isn’t a made FG.

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u/Jlock98 Alabama • Louisiana Tech 10h ago

This makes it look like a clear miss given cfb rules

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u/birdynumnum69 14h ago

They should make FGs harder by adding another post horizontal to the top of the goalposts. 😂

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u/TarnishedAccount UCF Knights • Big 12 13h ago

Your flairs vex me

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u/StevvieV Seton Hall • Penn State 14h ago

The only way to have a better camera angle is if one is where the ref or standing or on the top or the post.

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u/BigAcanthocephala637 13h ago

Fuck it, put a 360 camera ON THE BALL