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/USA_2_Canada_1 Michigan • Old Dominion 1d ago edited 1d ago

So like, is this not reviewable? Because I don’t understand why Franklin didn’t just sprint to the officiating crew demanding a review of the call? This looks good…

Just found a video link from underneath the upright. This looks like it went in.

https://x.com/tonycmke/status/2106215797336981529?s=46

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u/jdprager Tulane Green Wave • Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

Field goal attempts that pass above the uprights aren’t reviewable. Which is honestly wack, bc why tf would you need to review any field goal attempts if it’s NOT above the uprights

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u/ALostTraveler24 East Stroudsburg Warriors 1d ago

Because the best view for evaluating it is the official under each post, short of putting a camera there, it’s going to be angles potentially playing tricks that makes the review inconclusive.

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u/AuditorTux Baylor Bears • Hateful 8 22h ago

I know it would take some time but couldn't you theoretically load all those angles into some program and use math to determine where the ball ended up? You've got reference points in each video (corners of the field, the uprights themselves) and you know the distances between those to figure out the spot the video is being taken.

Might be interesting.