Big 12 coordinator of football officials Walt Anderson said the right call was made in putting an extra second on the clock, allowing Texas’ Hunter Lawrence to kick the game-winning field goal in the Big 12 championship game on Saturday night. The clock showed :00 after Texas quarterback Colt McCoy scrambled and threw the ball out of bounds. But while Nebraska players threw up their arms in celebration and ran onto the field, officials waved their arms trying to gain control of what proved to be a premature celebration. A second was put back on the clock after the play was reviewed. Lawrence then made a 46-yard field goal for a 13-12 Texas victory. “The play is reviewable because it involves a clock error at a crucial time of the game,” Anderson said. Anderson said replay officials were looking at the flight of the ball with the clock superimposed on a replay. They ruled the ball hit the ground with one second left. “Once we saw it hit something, that was the point at which we stopped the clock,” Anderson said. Texas won Fair & Square.
Colt let that one get a little too close but a second is a second.
Longhorns won that one. Hook’em!
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