“Fine, Chip. We’ll make sure it’s a White Christmas.”

“I’m right here, you guys!”

Runners are not defenseless. The defender did not initiate contact with the crown of his helmet. There’s literally no case for a targeting call on this play.

That’s because it wasn’t targeting. The big problem with football is that it is a dangerous game even when you do everything right, have the best equipment, and don’t try to hurt anybody. This is what the NFL refuses to admit and every time somebody suggests it they climb on the “war on football!” wagon.

Good hit, wasn't targeting the head or using his own as a battering ram.

The best part about Fat Guy Touchdowns is always the celebration. It’s like when one Fat Guy scores a touchdown, EVERY Fat Guy has scored a touchdown. Even the ones in the stands.

I was a linebacker. Also a safety. He targeted. Every decision in the entire game takes less than half a second, in fact half a second would be an eternity. You can’t hit dudes in the head and you can’t hit them high knowing you might hit them in the head.

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since it’s obvious the WR didn’t lower his head, the rest of your comment is on mute

Disagree on this. Look at the definition Kevin provided. This is textbook, even if it is not helmet to helmet contact.

That is the rulebook definition of targeting. Targeting came about since one year the NFL starting strictly enforcing hits to the head and the NCAA did nothing. Which led to NCAA football being “harder hitting” and more violent than the NFL. NCAA still allows the QB helmet to be touched unlike the NFL.

despite the UL fans crying on tweeter.. when you hit a guy in the chin with your helmet, that’s targeting. Sorry it’s your “last game as a senior” but rules are rules donkey.

In the NCAA, the ball must travel “over the crossbar between the uprights” to be good. No matter how you look at that attempt, the ball was not between the uprights. It was, at best, directly above one of them, and above is not between. (Lest I be misunderstood, the height wasn’t a problem—above their level AND…

Didn’t you just describe the majority of the bowl games?

Has to be between the uprights. NCAA doesn’t specify outside or inside edges, but regardless, it passes at best - directly over the uprights but not fully between the outside edges.

It is not a technicality. The cameras are centered behind the end zones such that the referee will ALWAYS have a better view than what could be provided on replay, unless the ball passes either behind or in front of one of the uprights (e.g., not above the goal posts) to clearly show the ball was between or outside of…

Even under the post, it’s still a hard call because it’s not as simple as “left of the post or right of the post?” It’s a question of whether the entire ball passed inside where the extended post would be, or did only 99% of the ball pass inside the post.

How can you review a play that is impossible to review? There’s no camera angle in that stadium that’s going to give you DEFINITIVE INDISPUTABLE evidence that the field goal was good. It’s a total judgement call and it cannot be anything else. In baseball though it’s reviewable if the ball even goes above the foul…

Well, there’s an official under each post looking straight up, so it should be a no-brainer to call it accurately.

So now officially Miami stole a win from Indiana at this point? I’m confused.