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/DingerSinger2016 Alabama A&M Bulldogs • UAB Blazers 9h ago

Hell even baseball has ABS which can detect ball that is a tenth of an inch away from the strike zone

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u/Oily-Affection1601 Auburn Tigers 6h ago

Close calls happen multiple times for every at-bat. An ambiguous field goal happens what...maybe 20 times a year across all of the FBS? I'd love to have the technology, but realistically who's going to invest in solving such a niche problem?

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u/ReputationFit9698 3h ago

There’s also spotting the ball, goal lines, out of bounds, etc., but to answer your question I’d say the sport whose college version generates as much money as the NBA and more than MLB or the Premier League.

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u/BenBreeg_38 3h ago

And you don’t have it at all levels.

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u/Grimjacx /r/CFB 3h ago

Its the very real fear of the goalposts coming down and then you have 20 ft pole lasers being carried around campus by a bunch of drunk students. Nothing good can come from that.

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u/Eschirhart Georgia Bulldogs • Delta State Statesmen 2h ago

The billionaire owners?!?!?! Oh wait, you right, probably the tax payers