Not Top 10 Play of the Day

[silverscreenselect]

There's a reason Kansas is probably the major college football team around (referred to nowadays as the "Power 5"). Trying to set up a game tying field goal against Division 1-AA South Dakota State, they fumble the snap on a spike attempt.

[BackInTex]

2nd not Top 10 Play of the Day is the Louisville coach using their final timeout unnecessarily to stop the clock, preventing them from being able to stop the clock after the play and allowing Auburn to run out the clock (3 seconds left) on 4th down, rather than Louisville getting the ball back for a final attempt to score.

[SpacemanSpiff]

Here's a malevolent one from the high school level. In a literal case of "kill the umpire"* two Texas high school players blindside the official in the closing minutes of a game. Both were ejected and suspended (not sure how long).

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/high ... 487775.php

And despite the self-protective phrase of "appear to deliberately hit" in the headline, it's pretty obvious it's deliberate.

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* For those unfamiliar with football officials, that position is the umpire.

[silverscreenselect]

2nd not Top 10 Play of the Day is the Louisville coach using their final timeout unnecessarily to stop the clock, preventing them from being able to stop the clock after the play and allowing Auburn to run out the clock (3 seconds left) on 4th down, rather than Louisville getting the ball back for a final attempt to score.

It wasn't quite as bad a mistake as it first seemed. In the NFL, in the last five minutes of a game, the clock stops on a penalty and does not start again until the ball is snapped (the same rule applies to out-of-bound plays). In college however, the clock stays stopped on out-of-bounds plays in the last two minutes of either half, but it starts again following a penalty. So, as the referees told Petrino during the discussion about the penalty, the clock would have started anyway as soon as they marked the ball ready for play. Auburn would have had 25 seconds to get the play off, not the usual 40. So, if Petrino had not called the timeout, Auburn would have been forced to run a play with approximately 27 seconds left and Petrino could then have called his last timeout with about 20-25 seconds left on the clock, depending on how long it took Auburn to run the play.

Assuming Auburn was able to execute the punt, which doesn't always happen (see below), Louisville would have had time for one or two throws from deep in its territory.

Bad things can happen when you punt late in the game:

[SpacemanSpiff]

And in a scary Not Top 10 play, you know a player had been hit hard when he lines up on the wrong side of the ball.

http://fanbuzz.rare.us/story/scary-scen ... with-tide/

Wisconsin's defensive captain, safety Michael Caputo, took a hit to the head on the third play of the game while trying to tackle Bama's Derrick Henry. He promptly got up, and lined up in position in the Alabama backfield. Needless to say, the game was stopped, he was taken off the field and (wisely) didn't play the rest of the game.

[jarnon]

Here's a malevolent one from the high school level. In a literal case of "kill the umpire"* two Texas high school players blindside the official in the closing minutes of a game. Both were ejected and suspended (not sure how long).

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/high ... 487775.php

And despite the self-protective phrase of "appear to deliberately hit" in the headline, it's pretty obvious it's deliberate.

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* For those unfamiliar with football officials, that position is the umpire.

The players have accused the referee of racial slurs before they attacked him. Yeah, sure.

[SpacemanSpiff]

Interestingly enough on the HS play, I heard at lunchtime on ESPN that they ejected two players on that play, but one was the wrong player. Next play, when the other team took a knee to kill what was left of the game clock, the player who should have been ejected took a flying leap over the line and tried to nail the quarterback. He was then ejected for that play.

I wonder if the other QB used racial slurs as well.