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Wildcat Sports => Football => Topic started by: Lynch on December 03, 2012, 09:46:51 AM
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Can someone explain this to me too.
Biggest bailout: Nigel Malone, CB, Kansas State. Malone was nearly a nominee for worst play, but an odd ruling earns him a special nod. Malone intercepted a wobbly ball to the sidelines from Case McCoy and looked to return it for a touchdown, but pulled what's commonly known as a "DeSean Jackson," dropping the ball before he crossed the end zone. Instead of a touchback, K-State was given the ball on the half-yard line, and Collin Klein punched it in. Still. Mack Brown wasn't happy about the call, and I still don't think I understand why it wasn't a touchback.
Why wasn't that a touch back?
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My understand is that it is a "fumble" that no one recovered it. Had a Texas player got it afterward, or if it got to the endzone and then out-of-bound, it would have been a touch back. Had a K-State Player recovered it, it would have been a touchdown.
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Got a good explanation from GoPo. The play was dead immediately when the ref called touchdown. So the ball was placed at the first spot it hit the ground. Snyder had the option to either take the ball their or replay the down. Obviously we took the ball at the 1/2 yard line.
Basically it was being treated like an inadvertent whistle.