what an insane end of regulation to the Music City Bowl

[charlie and algernon]

North Carolina was driving with less than 20 seconds left and they decided to run the ball for another 10 yards and they're out of timeouts. But instead of spiking the ball, they send out the field goal unit, only they suddenly realize there's not enough time, so the field goal unit charges off and the QB spikes the ball but the refs call the game over and everyone rushed the field. But then they review the last 10 seconds and see that there's still 1 second left on the clock. So UNC gets to kick and makes a game tyingn field goal. Now they're going to overtime after everyone thought Tennessee won the game. INSANE.


Edit: oops, wrong name of the bowl.

[charlie and algernon]

1. And UNC wins in 2OT after coming 1 second from losing in regulation

[madinmaryland]

2. If only we had the "choice" commentary from a former contributor to this forum...

and I'm not talking about Lane Kiffen.

:evilgrin:

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. Kansas State and Tennessee got the shaft.

KSU for a guy saluting? 15 yards for that?

According to the rules, when all the NC field goal players started running on the field, the umpire is suppose to cover the ball with the clock running and delay the snap until the defense is allowed to adjust to the offensive substitutions. Instead, they let NC snap the ball with all those players (15 or 16) running around on offense and kill the clock with .01 left. There was a 5-yard penalty, but NC was still allowed to kick the tying FG. The clock should have run out. The refs blew it. Something like this would never happen in the NFL.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Someone explained that there were 3 different possible penalties they could had called.

2 of which were 5 yard penalties. The third which should had been a 15 yard penalty.

And they were putting it out there that other coaches will be thinking "We can do this?". And it will be happening more.

Thinking about your statement that they are suppose to delay the snap until the defense is allowed to adjust to the offensive substitutions... In reality there wasn't any offensive substitution. If the offensive team had switched to the field goal kicking team then it would had been a substitution. Instead, they decided to keep the offensive team on the field. If there isn't a rule to consider what they did a substitution situation that requires time for the defense to adjust there should be.