Notre Dame

Just got a questionable call to win and are most likely headed to the top 5.

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They haven't allowed an offensive touchdown in five weeks. They may be iffy on offense, but their D is LEGIT.

 

The D is badass. Stuffed Stanford inside the one twice to win, although I thought Taylor was in on 4th.

 

Looked clear as day that he never stopped moving and got the ball over the plane to me.

 

I can't tell whether or not his elbow hit. he definitely got the ball across the line, but his elbow was blocked by the defender's leg. Also, I'm pretty sure a whistle had blown--the line judge had already run halfway in to spot the play.

Either way, D is awesome.

 

Either way, the officiating was a joke at the end.

 

I thought one of his elbows was awfully close to touching.

 

I dunno. It might've been the wrong call, but making the wrong call doesn't necessarily mean officiating is a joke. It was a really close play. Unless there was another bad call that I wasn't paying attention to.

 

That last replay from the opposite side of normal camera views seemed to give it away that the ball crossed before his elbow could have hit. That, or his left arm is approximately 8 feet long.

 

I get that it's standard protocol to call it, but the "helmet to helmet" hit was a bit of a stretch. It was a bang bang football play. He wasn't intentionally leading with the helmet, it was just the way the play fell into place that it was that way imo.

 

I missed that one. I was flipping between games.

 

They had already blown the whistle before he "almost" touched. That's a joke.

 

It did irritate me how they showed about 14 angles where you couldn't see anything then right at the end showed the view with the runner actually visible. Would have been nice to get a few more looks at it.

 

Yeah, had they done that a few years ago Reggie Bush's last second TD to beat the Irish doesn't happen.

 

Looked to me like his progress was stopped. I might've blown the whistle had I been officiating. Like I said, I get wrong, I don't get joke.

 

I get that, but at the goal line guys are pretty much always allowed a second effort.

 

I want to reiterate though that in any other game the same call would have likely been made since it was a hit on the QB, but I still think there needs to be more of a gray area with those calls.

 

They kept mentioning if he lost control of the ball but it rolled right into the arms of another Cardinal. Thought it was a TD either way.

 

Yeah, they shouldn't have blown it. I just don't think it was egregiously bad, even if you usually expect to be able to go for the second effort after being stacked up.

Gotcha. That rule is called ridiculously. All the helmet/upper body safety penalties are. In the Boise/Fresno game, there was a roughing the passer for getting the QB in the shoulder. The shoulder!

 

The ref did run in, but I never heard a whistle.

I hope SC drops 'em.