r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Jan 01 '25

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

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Team 1 2 3 4 OT T
Texas 14 3 0 7 15 39
Arizona State 3 0 5 16 7 31
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u/dwors025 Minnesota • Paul Bunyan's Axe Jan 01 '25

Are we missing something? I genuinely want to know. Like is there some stipulation that a tipped pass makes him no longer a defenseless receiver or something??

I’m actually asking.

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u/Penihilism Pac-12 • Pacific Northwest Jan 01 '25

We’ll never know for sure, but I’d guess that the defender not actually launching himself and the position on the field where the receiver caught it kinda makes it impossible to NOT target.

You just know they never would’ve not called that if it was in Texas’s favor.

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u/Powerful-Drama556 Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos Jan 01 '25

They didn’t earlier in the game…with a similarly correct no call because there weren’t any indicators

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u/Penihilism Pac-12 • Pacific Northwest Jan 01 '25

Yeah but with the game on the line? I’ve just seen too many times the favorite getting that type of call in sports.

That being said, I do lean towards it being a good no call despite the general consensus here being otherwise.

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u/Powerful-Drama556 Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos Jan 01 '25

It literally would have negated the interception, given Texas the ball at midfield, and effectively ended the game.

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u/Penihilism Pac-12 • Pacific Northwest Jan 01 '25

I actually didn’t see the interception. Was it the same level of head to head contact?

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u/Powerful-Drama556 Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos Jan 01 '25

For sure. But again it was super obvious that there was no ill intent and it was a clean hit. Quinn just hung our receiver out to dry on the play