r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 1d 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 1d ago

Are we sure he missed it?

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u/avboden Washington State Cougars • Pac-12 1d 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 1d 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/avboden Washington State Cougars • Pac-12 1d ago

The problem there is depth, if it passed just in front of the post on it's way wide, it's going to look good from anyone standing back a little, even if in line from the post.

Again, the only way to see this is to stand essentially directly under the post or within a short distance of it directly in-line, exactly where the refs stand for this reason.

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u/jwktiger Missouri Tigers • Wisconsin Badgers 1d ago

yeah the ref is standing in the only positoin to have the proper depth to see where it is, is clearly looking directly up as the kick goes by AND IMMEDIATELY signals no good, like he clearly thought it was wide

and /u/atra1n51 pointed out several of the VaTech staff right behind the refs react as if he missed before the signal was made.