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LSU didn’t commit a horse collar tackle. The NCAA’s rulebook wording for a horse collar is pretty terrible while the NHFS and NFL rulebooks are both more thorough. In both of those rulebooks the horsecollar is essentially defined by grip to the side or back and that grip being used to “cause the ball carrier’s knees to buckle”(NFL) or “pulling backward or to the side”(NHFS). It was not a penalty in this case because Perkins Jr. brought down the ball carrier with a grip that was inside the front, it was this grip that caused the tackle and doesn’t meet the definition of horse collar. The NCAA actually does have a better explanation in one of their training videos, just not in their rulebook.