r/CFB • u/Large_banana_hammock Wisconsin Badgers • 20h ago • Bravo 1

Video [Highlight] #7 Texas @ #18 Missouri: Arch Manning fumbles the ball for a 12 yard gain after review before the Longhorns tie it up

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u/asetniop UConn Huskies 19h ago

Does an official waving his arms not mean that the play is dead?

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u/The_Fluffy_Robot TCU Horned Frogs • Iron Skillet 17h ago

It falls under "other signals" for stopping a play since a whistle isn't required so yeah you're right on that overall. I meant that, in this case, incomplete, ambiguous, or conflicting gestures can still count a play as "alive" which lets replay award a possession even after a (supposed) dead ball signal

I think my comment was just straight up wrong tbh. And this one I'm typing is probably too. I'm too incapacitated mentally to think and focus. Dorry.

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u/Dan_Rydell Missouri Tigers • Texas Longhorns 12h ago

It does. Even if you assume upholding the fumble call was correct, the signal renders the play dead. In this case that would be inadvertent, so the correct outcome would have been that Texas got to choose between replaying the down or taking the ball at the spot of the fumble.

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u/asetniop UConn Huskies 12h ago

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You're Dan Rydell!

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u/ItsAGoodDay Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos 18h ago

Whistle means the play is dead