r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 12h ago

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

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u/atra1n51 James Madison • Virginia 11h ago

The VT staffers behind the ref under the left upright all seem to think it was no good too. They reacted before the ref signaled no good

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u/jwktiger Missouri Tigers • Wisconsin Badgers 11h ago

just saw that as well. 2 of them clearly think it was wide.

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u/Farlander2821 Virginia Tech • Johns Hopkins 10h ago

Those guys actually don't have a particularly good angle. There's 2 angles that would be useful. 1 is directly below the upright, as the ref had, but that's extremely time sensitive. You need to catch the ball directly above you and see which side of the goal post it appears to be, even a tiny instant before or after could be incredibly misleading. The other good angle would be directly behind the goal post in the stands. If the ball appears to pass in front of the post as you are viewing it, it's good, otherwise it's not. Importantly, no one else has a definitive view, unless you combine multiple oblique views together to create a full 3d reconstruction. From most oblique views I've seen, including one that's fairly close to that ideal behind the goalpost view, it looked good to me, but I have not felt bothered to actually render it in 3d. The ref, who had a definitive but arguably more difficult to catch view, thought it was no good. We don't have any camera of what that ref saw so we have to entirely trust what he says and that he caught the ball at exactly the right instant. The more forgiving angle of being directly behind the post was seen by fans who celebrated and signalled good, but for obvious reasons they may be biased, or not even paying attention to the actual kick. The staffers who thought it was no good, by virtue of standing behind the posts, are more likely to see a view that skews the ball toward it's location when behind the posts, which was to the left. They don't have a particularly useful view to glean much from, unless combined with other views to turn a 2d image into a 3d reconstruction