Miami Beat Duke On Pure Pandemonium
By Ty Duffy
Miami scored an insane game-winning touchdown against Duke on a kickoff return, Cal-Stanford level. The play looked to have been called back for a block in the back. The flag, somehow, was overturned after an extensive review. The knee, somehow, was not ruled down. The play stood. Miami beat Duke 30-27.
Could describe what just happened, but it would take far more than 140 characters.
— Canes Football (@CanesFootball) November 1, 2015
Here is a frame by frame breakdown of the Miami runner. Close, but it appears his knee was down.
UPDATE: Per FOX Sports’ Mike Pereira, the knee was down and the penalty should not have been reviewable.
First, it does appear then there was a knee down based on some pictures that I have seen. It was close but it looked down.
— Mike Pereira (@MikePereira) November 1, 2015
More importantly, they used replay to decide to pick up the flag for the block at the 25. Replay is not allowed to reveiw a call for that.
— Mike Pereira (@MikePereira) November 1, 2015
Word is that crew made the decision but that is bogus as the referee called over the officials after going back to talk to replay a 2nd time
— Mike Pereira (@MikePereira) November 1, 2015