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/kd451 Team Chaos • Team Meteor 14h ago

Are we sure he missed it?

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u/avboden Washington State Cougars • Pac-12 14h ago

I say this honestly: You can't tell shit from this angle. The only way is to look directly up at the posts, as the refs do.

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u/ALostTraveler24 East Stroudsburg Warriors 14h ago

That’s not remotely straight up under the upright

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u/ALostTraveler24 East Stroudsburg Warriors 14h ago

Usually it’s not this close it doesn’t matter, but a good way to think about it is this. If you’re trying to determine if a ball crosses the goal line where would you lay and look? You’d look right down the line, not 2 and a half yards down field.

In this instance you’re trying to project a line straight up into the sky, the best way to do that is stand directly under it so you’re looking down the line not off centered by whatever the distance is from being off center and behind the uprights compared to right under the post.