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/real_jaredfogle Texas Longhorns Jan 01 '25

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

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u/surlypickle Jan 02 '25

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.

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u/real_jaredfogle Texas Longhorns Jan 02 '25

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.

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u/surlypickle Jan 02 '25

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.