The only one to get screwed was TCU.
It looked like the ball was out of bounds with 1 second left but I was rooting for Nebraska too.
no dog in the hunt for me
good call.. ball hit something out of bounds and the clock wasn’t at zero
The replay clearly showed the ball hit a railing out of bounds with 00:01 seconds left. This was a correct call. Sorry.
YEP, NEBRASKA GOT TOOLED
LSU fan here and I thought Les Miles was bad at using the clock but ole Mack Brown takes the cake.
The referees have the final say! That’s why we have them!
Makes no difference when they blew the whistle. Clock stoppage is reviewable, and on review, the clock still said 1 second when the ball hit the ground. Blowing the whistle late was an error, and the replay corrected the error.
If the ball had been thrown higher or further, they would have lost.
The ball hit the turf with 1 second on the clock but usually takes the guys who run the clock a couple seconds to hit the stop button. It was a dumb decision on Texas’ part to make it so close but it was the correct call.
Didn't like it, me being in Nebraska and all.
Prior to the one second incident, there were two pass interference calls, for non-catchable balls.
I have a conspiracy theory of sorts. At least twice in my memory, the Big 12 has shot itself in the foot and destroyed a Big 12 team’s BCS Championship hopes, through an upset in the Big 12 game. The officials are Big 12 officials. They support their league. They may even have a vested interest in the Big 12’s exposure/success. It seems intuitive that they would prefer Texas win.
Besides that, the entire NCAA, BCS, bowl game host cities, etc. had a vested interest in preventing ‘BCS Chaos’. I can find alot of reasons why alot of people would prefer Texas win.
But, good grief, Nebraska was terrible. The Big 12 North was nothing to write home about this year. Come to think of it, neither was the Big 12 South.
I’m a ‘Bama fan; and, I was actually worried they might have to play Cincinnati, a team better than Texas IMHO.
Keep the ball in bounds, Huskers!
If Nebraska hadn’t kicked the ball out of bounds it wouldn’t have mattered.
UT has secured the right to get free football lessons at Pasadena.
Replays showed the ball hit the ground with 1 second left on the clock. Nebraska screwed itself by kicking off out of bounds a couople plays before that, giving Texas the ball at their own 40 yard line. To bad; I was pulling for Nebraska.
I blame Bush, Texas and Halliburton ; connect the dots .
The ball went out of bounds with one second left.
The clock stops immediately when the play is out of bounds.
Nobody got screwed. I am a fan of neither team, being from Missouri.
Texas got a big break. The clock was 00....even if the ball hit out of bounds with 01 left. Football, unlike basketball, does not have clocks that go 1/10 of a second
In the 1998 Rose Bowl....Washington State spiked the ball, and the clock had two seconds left when they spiked the ball to stop the clock....this was clear on the replay. Instead, the clock ran down to zero...and Michigan won, with Wash State not getting an additional play
In football....the clock is stopped when the referee blows a play dead....not at the moment of a dead ball (which basketball does). The ref did not blow the play dead until the clock ran out
Nebraska got jobbed. This is not basketball....where Texas would have had tenths of a second left
“I only saw the reply once with audio and clearly heard the official`s whistle blow after the clock showed 0.00 on the clock.”
Thanks for that. That was a heart breaker for Nebraska.
I watched the game on TY, hoping for a big upset. The play clock was shown at the top of the screen, ticking down the seconds during the pass play prior the field goal attempt . It ticked down to one second when the ball hit the ground out of bounds. But the referees did review the camera replay before they decided toallow the field goal try.
The Nebraska coach was hopping mad about something and I couldn’t figure out why he kept going on. The announcers didn’t seem to have a clue neither. It must have been the whistle.
The refs made some pretty bad calls (Like pass interference on Nebraska when the receiver ran out of bounds) which kept Texas in it at the end.
The great thing about the 160ft TV at cowboys stadium is that you could clearly see the Texas players holding the Nebraska defense and it wasn't being called by the Refs. Suh sacked McCoy once with a Texas guy hanging off of him. I don't remember one holding call during the game.
Nobody at the game thought Texas won it. If they did they were a Yeehaw, braindead Hook'm Horns Texas fan. The people watching the game objectively thought either Nebaraska lost it or the refs lost it for Nebraska. If anybody thinks Texas won it, they are confused.