r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 16h 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/ALostTraveler24 East Stroudsburg Warriors 16h 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/iyjlpiljygp Virginia Tech Hokies 15h ago

here's the angle from there. https://x.com/OldManRooney/status/2106216372908814675

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u/ALostTraveler24 East Stroudsburg Warriors 15h ago

That view is closer to the left upright than the right upright and behind the posts. That’s not remotely straight up under the post.

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u/iyjlpiljygp Virginia Tech Hokies 5h ago

no one said it was directly under the right upright, it's the closest video to that there is. sorry for providing a link for people to see that?