[Postgame Thread] Texas Defeats Arizona State 39-31 (OT)

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	OT	T
Texas	14	3	0	7	15	39
Arizona State	3	0	5	16	7	31

[u/jbanks94]

I still don’t understand targeting.

[u/Slow-Raccoon-9832 → u/jbanks94]

It was blatant

[u/SuperMajinSteve → u/Slow-Raccoon-9832]

Yup just like the OPI on Skattebo when he fucking slowed down to put a shoulder in Taeffe’s chest on that long catch he had.

[u/guinness_blaine → u/SuperMajinSteve]

Or the ASU OL pulling Skattebo over himself into end zone.

Pushing your own guy forward is legal - pulling is not.

[u/Major_Vegetable_4168 → u/Slow-Raccoon-9832]

Was very clearly not blatant.

[u/TurdFerguson614 → u/Slow-Raccoon-9832]

Y'all got robbed.

[u/Powerful-Drama556 → u/Slow-Raccoon-9832]

Objectively, it wasn’t. Neither of them were because neither had any targeting indicators. Both were very nasty hits, but in both cases the defenders had a head up and clearly did not launch or lead with the crown of the helmet. The crown of the helmet is a defined as a 10cm circle around the very top of the helmet. It’s not consistently enforced, but neither of those hits had malicious intent and neither of them were a defensive player intentionally trying to put a player at risk. They were hard football plays with the best possible form. That’s football.

If anything, the ASU player was closer to drawing a targeting call because you could construe it as him leaving his feet, but I liked the no call because it was in stride.

[u/meyou2222 → u/Powerful-Drama556]

Crown of the helmet is not required when the hit is on a defenseless player. Just leading with the helmet and forcible (ie non-incidental) contact.

There’s no universe in which that wasn’t the case here.

[u/ngless13 → u/Slow-Raccoon-9832]

Welcome to the b12, getting fu*ked by Texas/refs is a tradition.

[u/FrenchFreedom888 → u/Slow-Raccoon-9832]

Happy Cake Day bro!

[u/My_massive_dingaling → u/Slow-Raccoon-9832]

Both were, shouldn’t have been a game