I can't believe anyone watched today's game and thought it was well played anywhere, except kicker
Pitt/GaTech Game Thread
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It was nice of GT to decline the penalty so we could add 12 yards of total offense. They could have accepted and just had a 10 second run off.
An average offense either wins today or loses by less than a TD.
This is the worst Pitt offense since 1996.
This is the worst Pitt offense since 1996.
Yes, stopped themselves by throwing interceptions and fumbling on hard hits and not getting first downs.
Oh wait... I guess our offense played awesome then? We just stopped ourselves by throwing one yard passes all game
I'm pretty sure there would not have been a ten second run off had Georgia Tech accepted the penalty. Accepting the penalty would have given us one more untimed down.
No. You only get an untimed down when the defense commits the penalty.
There have been many games ended because of offensive penalties and clock run offs.
Did you watch the game? We didn't officially record an interception and 3 of their 4 fumbles were completely unforced.
An average offense puts up 40+ points? We weren't even a threat in the 2nd half. If GT doesn't drop the ball unforced 3 times and kept playing the whole 4th, they put up 50+. There are massive problems on both sides of the ball.
Wouldnt be a run off, but would have an untimed down. Made no difference, so they correctly declined
That is not true. Any time a team accepts a penalty on the "last" play of the game there is an untimed down. The only way that a game can end on a live ball penalty that is accepted is if the penalty includes loss of down (you may remember that was what the officials screwed up in the OK State - CMU game last season). That is the reason that defensive teams never accept penalties like that unless the play results in a score that would have won the game. To give you an example of this, on the game winning TD pass by the nitters last night, had they been called for holding the game would NOT have been over. Iowa would have accepted the penalty and the nitters would have gotten one more play to try to score, because games cannot end on live ball penalties.
And there have, indeed, been games that ended because of offensive penalties and clock run offs. But clock runoffs are only done in specific situations, not on all penalties on the offense. Because the play that Pitt ran resulted in a first down the clock would have stopped at the end of the play. Penalties that occur with the clock stopped do not incur ten second run offs. If a guy gets called for a penalty and the refs have to stop the clock to administer the penalty THEN there is a runoff (something like illegal procedure with a moving clock). If the clock is or would have stopped anyway then there is NOT a run off.
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