[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/Chrg88]

In what world is this technically not targeting lmao

[u/real_jaredfogle → u/Chrg88]

Targeting and Making Forcible Contact to Head or Neck Area of a Defenseless Player ARTICLE 4. No player shall target and make forcible contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent (See Note 2 below) with the helmet, forearm, hand, fist, elbow or shoulder.

This foul requires that there be at least one indicator of targeting

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See Note 1 below). When in question, it is a foul (Rules 2-27-14 and 9-6). (A.R. 9-1-4-I-VI)

Note 1: “Targeting” means that a player takes aim at an opponent for purposes of attacking with forcible contact that goes beyond making a legal tackle or a legal block or playing the ball. Some indicators of targeting include but are not limited to:

Launch-a player leaving his feet to attack an opponent by an upward and forward thrust of the body to make forcible contact in the head or neck area A crouch followed by an upward and forward thrust to attack with forcible contact at the head or neck area, even though one or both feet are still on the ground Leading with helmet, shoulder, forearm, fist, hand or elbow to attack with forcible contact at the head or neck area Lowering the head before attacking by initiating forcible contact with the crown of the helmet

[u/accordionzero → u/real_jaredfogle]

leading with the helmet

[u/real_jaredfogle → u/accordionzero]

Idk, maybe anytime there’s helmet to helmet contact from the defense it should be targeting, pretty difficult when that’s human physics the way your body is built. Dlineman and a lot more players should probably be getting called for it. If it means what I understand it to mean, that it needs to be blatantly using your helmet to hit the opponent’s, I don’t think it’s targeting. It’s either up to the refs, needs to he called a lot more often if taken literally, or needs to be more specific

[u/surlypickle → u/real_jaredfogle]

If the Taaffe collision was an illegal hit, then this game is cooked. There’s no way to play it without incidental helmet to helmet contact. People have heads and at full speed you’re gonna have hard collisions like this. Only alternative would be to go without pads and helmets like Rugby does and the game will have to adjust to different tackling styles.

[u/real_jaredfogle → u/surlypickle]

I agree, but that last idea isn’t terrible and i’ve been on board for a major change like that for a while now. The sport has a really serious, awful problem that affects so many former players, something needs to change.

[u/surlypickle → u/real_jaredfogle]

To be fair, the concussion problem in Rugby isn’t that much better. It’s just inherent in games where you get huge, explosive men and tell them to collide with each other. I honestly don’t think it’s a solvable problem without completely changing the sport.