Yes. By your own admission the defender wasn't watching where he was going. The defender ran into the kicker who was in the process of bringing his kicking leg down. By the time contact was made the kickers leg was halfway down.
Saying that the kicker "tripped" the defender while still in the...
The punter was standing on one leg at the time. I'm sorry, but the notion that the punter tripped the defender who wasn't watching where he was going is utter nonsense.
The burden is on the defender not to hit the punter. If he turned around, neglected to watch where he was going and hit the punter it's running into the kicker. And no, the punter didn't keep his leg up an unreasonable length of time.
You're right, it was in the first half. My bad. Still, it was a turnover, and it still makes a difference. Michigan scored a TD in the last 3:49 of the first half, which could have been time that Alabama would have burned up with a first down in the possession they missed.
I'm amazed that the...
Sure, they would have still been in their end, but it would have been first down Alabama. Let's go with your premise, that Michigan would have stopped Alabama in the next three downs and they punted. That would have burned 2 minutes and change off the clock. Michigan scored the tying TD with...
I don't understand Alabama's last play in OT either. It's fourth down and goal from the four. You need a touchdown on this play or your season is over. What's called for is a play with options, so if one way to score is blocked, you can do something else to score. So who called a QB run up the...
The running into the kicker call that was inexplicably missed would have resulted in an Alabama first down. Instead, Michigan got the ball, the equivalent of an interception on a long pass. Considering that the game ended tied in regulation, any turnover is a big deal.
Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of connections to both the state and University of Minnesota and am a big Gophers fan, but the stat that matters is won-loss and they're currently 5-3. I expect a 7-5 finish and a decent bowl game, but they'll be doing well if they end the season ranked.
That's...
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I agree that it would be nice to see more OOC games between top teams, but there are a few roadblocks in the way.
First more games between top teams means fewer games between top teams and cupcakes. This may seem like a good thing, but football in smaller schools depends on getting a split of...
This is a common phenomenon. Mahomes seems to be adjusting well.
This just goes to show how ridiculous the standards armchair quarterbacks maintain are. It's not easy winning the conference championship, much less the Super Bowl. Every team that gets that far is hard to beat, as the last two...
I don't see why not. Let's say Alabama and LSU run out their schedules except that one beats the other, which has happened. So there's an SEC West team at 12-0 and another at 11-1. The same thing happens with, say, Georgia and Florida. Even after the SEC title game that would leave a 13-0 team...
Nope.
Bengal's QB Joe Burrow was running towards the sideline. At the last second before he went out of bounds, he threw a pass that was caught in the end zone. The sideline ref thought Burrow was out of bounds when he threw the ball and blew the whistle when the ball was about a foot away...
I like the idea of more top tier OOC games, but what you're asking for is OOC games where BOTH teams are in the top 25 at the end of the year. The problem is that it's very difficult to predict who the top 25 teams are going to be at the end of 2021 when you're scheduling games in 2017.
Of the...
It's a valid point, but college football games are scheduled years in advance. It's hard to know in advance which teams are going to FINISH in the top 25 the year you play them, especially when you schedule the game four years ahead of time!
It is good that since Strength Of Schedule became...
It's true that most SEC teams schedule two or three cupcakes every year, but EVERYBODY in the major conferences does that. They're always home games for the major conference team and the cupcake gets to split the take from 100,000 seat stadium, which finances not only the football team, but most...
Some fun facts:
Since the College Football Playoff began with the 2014 season, Alabama has won the Championship game three times. They have also lost three times, four times if you count the time they lost to Ohio State in the first round.
The Big10 has won the Championship once (Ohio State)...