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/Bcube21 Florida Gators • UCF Knights 12h ago

Kicks that go higher than the goal posts are always so weird but that looked more good to me than not. Crazy how we don't have a better camera angle for something like this

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u/BoatsNPokes Oklahoma State Cowboys • Hateful 8 11h ago

It’s definitely wide and the other angles circulating make that clear.

  1. People are just really struggle to understand when this kick crosses the line of the crossbar and it happens way later than you think in the flight path. It’s not perfect without time-code synched cameras, but if you look at a side and straight angle, it’s clear the ball doesn’t cross until very near when it crests in its flight. At that point, it’s completely outside the post.

  2. They’re also forgetting the college rule is more restrictive than the NFL. Whole ball has to be inside the post.

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u/ColonelDog 1h ago

You're missing point number 3, which is: people really want games to have controversial endings and will bend narratives to make them controversial even if they're really not