re: LSU had to beat the refs too!

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Any force that comes off the ball in order to push the fingers back is force that is lost, which will result in a trajectory change.

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Not necessarily. It was pretty clear the defender’s middle finger bent backwards. There was not a radical change in the ball’s trajectory as you seem to mean. The ball’s rotation slowed and the spiral loosened slightly opening a slight tail wobble.

All of that was available to the reply official. If the letter of the rule is followed, the ball was touched and there should have been no interference call. The rule doesn’t demand a radical change in the ball’s trajectory. Just that it’s been touched.

Evidently the replay official thought as you do. No big change in the ball’s movement? It must not have been touched. Pass interference! Put the ball on the two. First and goal-ALABAMA!

This call and the ridiculous player out of bounds touching the ball contrived fiasco probably had a lot to do with CBK’s decision to go for two. He took the officials’ shenanigans off the table.

Win it all or lose it all on one play.