CFP Semifinal- Fiesta Bowl: Ohio State vs Clemson 8:15pm

[Buffalo Barbarian]

Wow, Chris Fowler just called Trevor T-Law   

 

 

[Buffalo Barbarian]

53 minutes ago, Rico said:

Just finished watching the 2nd half, State got hosed. I hope LSU curb-stomps these hillbillies.

 

I think LSU rolls them.

 

Ohio st should have been more aggressive when they had the lead in the fourth instead of running the clock down .

 

 

 

 

[Buffalo Barbarian]

Wow brutal miscommunication on that final interception.

 

 

[CLTbills]

Man what a game. Will go down as an all-time classic. I went to bed after Ohio State scored their last TD to go up 23-21. Woke up and the game was on ESPN again, right after that play ?.

Not a Buckeye fan AT ALL, but I as a football fan, that was fun to watch.

[DCOrange]

Re: the controversial calls:

 

targeting: its fine if you want to argue the rule should be changed. But under the current rule, this isn’t remotely questionable. That hit was the very definition of targeting and there’s no argument against it. 
 

the fumble and TD: I don’t really understand how that wasn’t a catch and fumble. Caught the ball, never bobbled it, took 4 or 5 steps, and tucked it away. 
 

roughing the kicker: the rule is so open-ended you can pretty easily argue both running into and roughing. I never knew how unclear the rule is until last night. 

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

 

 

 

 

 

[BuffaloRebound]

The guy lowered his head and connected with Lawrence’s head with the crown of his helmet.  Thats targeting regardless of what Lawrence did.    That’s not targeting if his face mask hit Lawrence’s helmet.  

 

The catch and fumble seemed like a bad call.  I guess the steps Clemson WR took when he was wrestling with Okudah for the ball didn’t count.  He was also going backwards at that point.  

Edited December 29, 2019 by BuffaloRebound

[YoloinOhio]

9 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

He broke off the route first and then fell.  If he just continued with the route he would've been there.

Yeah I saw that on replay. Just saying it wasn’t Fields just throwing it to the other team

[Motorin']

1 hour ago, BuffaloRebound said:

The guy lowered his head and connected with Lawrence’s head with the crown of his helmet.  Thats targeting regardless of what Lawrence did.    That’s not targeting if his face mask hit Lawrence’s helmet.  

 

The catch and fumble seemed like a bad call.  I guess the steps Clemson WR took when he was wrestling with Okudah for the ball didn’t count.  He was also going backwards at that point.  

If it was a catch, how is his forward progress not stopped? Okudah can just run him backwards and strip the ball? That's why the forward progress rule was out in place to begin with. 

 

Also on the targeting play, I thought the Chase Young punch to the throat was far more vicious and the thing that injured Lawrence. Should have been two flags on the play.

Edited December 29, 2019 by Motorin'

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

Report: College football's officiating coordinator says Ohio State's fumble return TD shouldn't have been overturned

 

 

 

[YoloinOhio]

42 minutes ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

Report: College football's officiating coordinator says Ohio State's fumble return TD shouldn't have been overturned

 

 

 

It was such a terrible call. But, at the end of it all, Ohio state scored a TD on offense after that anyway. And, they had two chances to win the game, one on defense and one on offense, and they didn’t do it. Credit to Clemson, who I don’t think is the better team but did what they had to do to win that game. 

[row_33]

It was the first horrible targeting call on the amazing sack on 3rd down, led to Clemson’s first score instead of punting it away

 

 

[YoloinOhio]

5 minutes ago, row_33 said:

It was the first horrible targeting call on the amazing sack on 3rd down, led to Clemson’s first score instead of punting it away

 

 

it was the turning point of the game