re: Screen captures of last A&M drive

I agree that’s a terrible rule. If a fumble is rolling around and touching players hands on the ground why are they not down as soon as their hand touches it?

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What?

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Touching a live ball constitutes possession?

How does it not pertain to those scenarios?

Don’t worry about the line. Look at where the ball is and count 10 yards down field.

1. He didn't possess the football and you can not say for 100% accuracy that his knee is down.

2. Where's the photo of the Aggie TE fumble?

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So when someone fumbles and they are down, all they have to do is touch it and the play is over?

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I see bad snaps all the time where offensive linemen are on the ground touching / moving the ball, only for it to be recovered by the defense. Right? Or am I thinnking NFL.

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Key word “Close”. If you reverse one close call with the questionable knee being down and Mond not in control of the ball, how do you not at least review close fumble of a reception?? That’s the problem.

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The call on the field was incomplete. Since that’s the case, I don’t think you can review it and change possession.

I just watched the replay on watchespn and clearly a first down, made it by a couple of yards

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The clock operator can’t stop the clock until the ref signals to stop the clock. That signals the play is over. That call stole the game from LSU. And the refs knew this. If the clock operator could stop the clock when ever the ball or the ballcartier was down he would control the game and most clock operators would be under investigation.

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Correct. Football does not have the same sort of clock precision as say basketball. It’s silliness to try to make it such in certain scenarios or even pretend you should be able to do so.

Many posters here are completely missing it. Their is no special rule that applies. What happened is the QB fumbled the snap and it is a loose ball. Just because he is touching the ball while trying to recover and his knee or any other body part is down means nothing. It’s when he gains possession of the loose ball that matters. When he gains possession of the loose ball his knee is off the ground. Clearly not enough evidence to overturn the ruling on the field. This is a completely bungled call by the officials that cost LSU the game. The booth official had to be looking extra hard to find something that wasn’t even there to begin with and then the rules interpretation of when he had possession of the fumble was completely incorrect.

And then there’s this: On the last play of regulation there were two completely missed infractions that are indisputable. 1st — the four receivers were all lined up on the same yard line. Either they were all on the line of scrimmage or they were all in the backfield. In the first case there were not enough players behind the LOS (4 required). In the second case there were too many behind the LOS. 2nd — The left tackle was not “covered” and as such is an eligible receiver. However, by NCAA rule his jersey number is not in the eligible range for him to be a receiver and this is an infraction.

These are two plays that had indisputable blown calls that cost LSU the game. There are other erroneous calls on other plays too but these are the most flagrant.

And still-pictures do nothing to prove most of these. Most weren't clear after 5 replays.

LSU got screwed multiple times.

Not sure why the so called objective LSU fan has to go out of his way to prove otherwise.