re: Did out of bounds Bama player have to reestablish himself to become a legal participant

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Rule was correctly applied but the possession should have been reviewed. LSU had possession before the touch. If knee was down, play is over, LSU ball. If knee was not down, play was over when Alabama touched the ball, LSU ball. That call and the tipped pass is why CBK went for 2. In less than one game he saw the cheating and knew his only option at a win was to take it out of the refs hands.

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The rule book does a shitty job of differentiating possession and control. I agree with the premise of your argument, the control that LSU had of the ball in that situation should have at least triggered a change in team possession. The Bama player simultaneously interrupted what would have led to LSU possession and killed The play dead from out of bounds. If he doesn’t knock it out, it’s not out of bounds. There is basically no way to rule on that play live, you would have to use replay to rule on it.

What sucks is they used the fact that it was batted down to say he didn’t have possession, but did not use the fact that he gathered and recovered afterwards to say he ultimately did have posesssion, because at one point the oob bama player touched it. At what point was the ball dead? When he touched it? When the ball touched the ground?

Too many moving parts to actually reverse it on the field in my opinion, and that is ultimately why LSU fans are still upset.