Anyone have a video link of the touchback that was overturned? Based on the replay in stadium, it looked like Duke's gunner touched the ball in the field of play and then it bounced inside the pylon, which would make it a touchback.
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I thought when I saw the replays that there wasn't conclusive evidence to overturn the call. On one replay that had it paused with the ball already having touched and bounced out of his hands, and then his foot rolled out of bounds. Regardless, we scored on that drive...
Logan Thomas's career highlight tape will include the next pass that came after that. So I'm okay with the call either way.
I don't have a link to it. They showed it a bunch of times, and I think they made the right call. As AZ_Hokie said above, it worked out in the end.
since we went 99 yards for a TD it ended up being a moot point. I agree though, from what I saw in the film definitely looked like the ball had bounced off of him just prior to his heel going down out of bounds.
I still think this is a BS rule. A player can be out of bounds and touch a ball and it's downed there? If it's an offensive player, it's either illegal touching or a fumble and up for grabs. But if he's a member of the kicking team, it's a knife in the heart. Moot point, as Dozer says, because it was an awesome TD drive, but that's a rule that needs to be looked at.
This can work both ways, though. Say, on a kickoff, the ball is about to bounce into the end zone, near the sideline, at the 1. The returner can step out of bounds, grab the ball (which is still in bounds) and the official call is that the ball is out, meaning the call is a kickoff out of bounds and the returning team gets it at the 35.
Nope. It is not "illegal touching"...it is "first touching" on a scrimmage kick. And if the player is out of bounds, then the ball is dead at that point. However, it that kick does not go out of bounds and continues, then the receiving team can elect to take the ball at point of first touching...no matter what occurs after that, thus becoming a no risk opportunity for the receiving team. "Illegal touching" occurs on a free kick before it has gone ten yards...or when an ineligible offensive player is first to touch a pass before it has crossed the line of scrimmage. If a member of the receiving team on a scrimmage kick is first to touch a kick beyond the LOS and does not make a catch, then it is a muff and can recovered by the kicking team but not advanced.
It was CLEARLY the right call by the officials after the review so let's not Homerize this one to death.
Yep. Right call, bad rule.
Not trying to homerize it - just that the replay they showed in the stadium made it look like a bad call.
I'm curious to see a better replay.