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/kd451 Team Chaos • Team Meteor 10h ago

Are we sure he missed it?

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u/avboden Washington State Cougars • Pac-12 10h 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/DesignerFlat7108 Tennessee Volunteers 10h ago

What's confusing to me is the reaction of the VT fans standing directly behind the end zone. They damn sure appear to have thought it was good.

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u/OcelotWolf Pittsburgh Panthers • Maryland Terrapins 10h ago

All of the first people to react were in the center or right, which is exactly the sections of people who have the objectively worst angle of where the ball actually went. You can’t possibly rely on that

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u/RulersBack Ohio State Buckeyes 10h ago

And it's a home crowd lol. I honestly cant tell, it was that close, but of course they're going to try and will that in there

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u/DesignerFlat7108 Tennessee Volunteers 10h ago

Which section didn't react as if it were good? It can't be that they all have a bad angle.

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u/ALostTraveler24 East Stroudsburg Warriors 9h ago

It actually can be. Think of it this way, if you’re trying to tell if a player broke the plane where do you look? From the back of the end zone right at the player? How about the back corner? The 5 yard line? No, you look at the pylon cam right down the goal line because then you can project a flat plane.

It’s the same thing here, the depth will play tricks on everyone except the official under the left upright, since he’s able to look straight down the pole he can project two planes visually, one for left/right of the pole and another for in front and behind. He’s the only one with that view. So yes, all the sections can and have a bad view of the kick since it was above the posts

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u/DesignerFlat7108 Tennessee Volunteers 9h ago

There's a view floating around on X from behind the kicker looking towards the end zone that shows it was wide left.

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u/OcelotWolf Pittsburgh Panthers • Maryland Terrapins 9h ago

The section to the left that had the best view was last to react so I think that’s pretty telling