Pac-10 corrects two calls in USC-Notre Dame; bloodthirsty crowds fail to materialize
Dr. Saturday —
It didn't make quite the headlines of its Southern counterpart in the process, but the Pac-10 spoke today on a couple of big calls it says one of its crews got wrong, both in Notre Dame's favor, in the Irish's last-second loss against USC. One of them was this bit of trickery, which set up ND's first touchdown in the first half, and of which Irish coach Charlie Weis was obviously proud:
Georgia Tech used the same play to score a touchdown against Clemson earlier in the season, and also had it declared retroactively illegal the following week by the ACC, for the same reason the Pac-10 said it shouldn't have ...
Are Illegal Fake Field Goals Illegal Or Not?
The Sporting Blog —
Earlier this year, Clemson and Georgia Tech played a game that
featured not one but two instances of the old run-the-guy-off-but-don't
fake field goal:
Clemson, remarkably, pulled off a similar gambit on a second-half
drive that ended in a game-tying field ...
