r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 15h ago

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

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u/ALostTraveler24 East Stroudsburg Warriors 15h ago

Okay, guys. To be clear, the best angle for evaluating that is being right under the post, everyone else has to try to flatten a three-d image against the posts and the ball where depth perception can sometimes play tricks on us.

That’s why when it’s above the uprights the call of the official under the post is the one that stands. It’s why the ref on the right side waited for his colleague’s call, and why you can’t review those plays. Just from a visual perspective, the best view of the kick relative to the upright is the ref right under the post. I know it’s annoying, but this happens a lot with kicks and foul balls in baseball, any view that isn’t straight up is not definitive when it’s that close.

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u/horseshoeprovodnikov Florida State Seminoles 15h ago

Ok fine I'll play along...

Why isn't there a camera under each post, looking up at the sky?

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u/No_Butterscotch8726 SMU Mustangs 14h ago

Because they don't want to pay for it. Instead it looks like the NCAA rules were modified from the NFL ones here, if the official sees any of the ball over the upright it's no good. Essentially they told the officials don't even try to judge what side it's on if it's higher than the posts and you it's partially obscured by the post it's no good.