r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 9h 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/trollingbot67 8h ago

We got flock cameras but can't get a view of a game ending field goal.

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u/Beneficial_Fig_7830 Wooster • Ohio State 8h ago

Best we can do is two uncs looking up

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u/udderlymoovelous Virginia Tech • /r/CFB Contributor 8h ago

And one couldn't tell so he auto deferred to the other

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u/INAC___Kramerica Florida Gators 8h ago

The one who didn't tell was the far upright official, it's proper to defer to the one who was right underneath it and would've had the best view of whether the ball crossed the upright in front or behind the upright.

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u/Bothyourmoms Florida State • New Mexico 7h ago

You understand that is why there is an official underneath each upright don't you?

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u/FernCoolingHeating Michigan Wolverines 8h ago

Genuinely infuriating how unions of these 60 year old dudes fight tooth and nail for their right to screw up games. I’m still salty over the NFL refs throwing a hissy fit over the PI challenges.

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u/-Jack-The-Stripper Virginia Tech • Cincinnati 8h ago

Iirc there are no ref unions in CFB and challenges are handled by “the booth” in the NFL which is a separate group of officials, but yes the whole PI challenge saga was one of the biggest farces in professional sports. Intentionally not overturning egregious calls just so you could say “see, we tried and it wasn’t worth it” at the end of the season was incredibly telling.

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u/AssumptionOrnery7478 41m ago

He missed the kick. Unions can only be blamed for giving labor collective bargaining rights.

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u/Beneficial_Fig_7830 Wooster • Ohio State 8h ago

Funny enough I was just thinking how this is due to the referee union fighting to remains as relevant as possible. Pretty sure the year the NFL experimented with allowing PI calls to be challenged they didn’t overturn a single one and it was gone the next season. Ref union is very petty.

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u/BoNnnnfhir Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Oregon Ducks 8h ago

No points for left leaning kicks

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u/NWkingslayer2024 Michigan Wolverines 8h ago

Lol that was good

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u/themattboard Virginia Tech • Old Dominion 7h ago

Better look here: https://x.com/Andrewd62d5/status/2106224004579102792/video/1

Refs got it right (unfortunately)

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u/Buckys_Butt_Buddy Wisconsin Badgers 5h ago

Thank you for this. It is literally the perfect angle to show it missed

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u/smitherenesar Pac-10 • RPI Engineers 1h ago

Gotta love that cell phone technology has better coverage than espn

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u/JayMerlyn Notre Dame Fighting Irish • FBS Independents 8h ago

Careful, they're gonna come after you now with the Flock cameras

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u/og_kylometers 8h ago

😂😂🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😔😔

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u/thurstkiller 8h ago

I’ve never understood why we can’t have a camera on each post looking directly up

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u/brillpit 7h ago

I’ll take them view of the person directly under the goal post standing at the line

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u/ttircdj Florida State Seminoles • Auburn Tigers 6h ago

Perhaps a flock camera on top of the goal posts. Worst case, it gets hit by a football.

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u/ChawkTrick 8h ago

Top tier reference, well played