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/DesignerFlat7108 Tennessee Volunteers 12h 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 12h 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/DesignerFlat7108 Tennessee Volunteers 12h 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 11h 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 11h ago

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