Texas Longhorns vs Aggy Game Thread

[mchammer]

This is what I thought, but apparently by rule if the pylon is touched before the player goes out of bounds it is a td. I don't know if that is correct, but that was how it was explained to me anyway. Same with Blue's catch. He had control and a foot down so it was a touchdown at that point and the ball movement after he hit the ground didn't matter.

Regarding Blue’s catch, he had control of the ball (after the initial bounce against the arm) all the way through to the ground. Once on the ground the aggy player tried to dislodged the ball. Too late.

In any event, this is why it took so long to review the call (it wasn’t the foot) and why the referee said the receiver had control thoughout. This is very similar to the Sweed catch in the EZ at Ohio State in 2005.

 

[Phil Elliott]

The goal line extends out of bounds to infinity. If the ball crosses that line at any time while no other part of the player is down (ie he is in the air) then it is a touchdown. It's pretty much impossible to complete this without touching the pylon, so the refs use that as an indicator if the player did it or not.

 

[Chop]

Great indeed and thanks for posting.
Again I don't know s**t about the game of football. I never played it at any competitive level, I'm just a huge fan and that's it.
That said it sure looks to me like #3 and #25 missed the opportunity to wrap up and drive Arch out of bounds before he scored. Not that we wouldn't have scored anyway, but nevertheless a missed chance on their part.

Aggies arm-tackle, and not just on this play. They tried to arm-tackle throughout the game. Wisner ran right through them, over-and-over. It's a sign of very poor defensive coaching.

Non top-notch defender in his right mind would want to go play for them.

 

[militaryhorn]

The way I interpret the rule in regards to Manning's score is that he scored because the ball broke the plane of the end zone which extends past the pylon before he hit the pylon which is considered out of bounds.

Has nothing to do with the ball hitting the pylon.

@horninchicago @cnb

 

[BornOrange0855]

We dominated the game but still made enough mistakes that we could have lost. So we need to clean those up. If we have a game where we need a 40+ field goal to win, I have little hope that Auburn will come through. I thought Ewers was a real gamer yesterday, using his legs when we needed him to but he has got to take better care of the ball when he runs. And I love that Elko had no option other than to admit that we "annihilated" the ags.

This was a great win in a very hostile environment. And as usual, the ags showed they have no class by blaring speakers playing loud music during time outs behind our bench to inhibit communication. Integrity? Don't make me laugh ags. You don't have any.

 

[Dionysus]

 

[Walking Boss]

We dominated the game but still made enough mistakes that we could have lost.

This describes every game since Georgia with the exception of Florida.

 

[SabreHorn]

Well, aggy says neither one was a touchdown, so there's that.

Have you ever known Aggie to be wrong?