r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 28d ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Vanderbilt Defeats NC State 35-31

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
NC State 14 3 7 7 31
Vanderbilt 0 7 7 21 35
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u/Stoneador Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Sickos 28d ago

Intentional safety was 100% the correct call, but Bailey could not have executed that play any worse. Doing literally anything else would have almost certainly resulted in NC State winning this game.

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u/CommodoreN7 Arkansas Razorbacks • Utah Utes 28d ago

He could’ve thrown the ball downfield out of bounds and just taken safety by intentional grounding by rule if I’m not mistaken.

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u/Gjallarhorn-Knight 28d ago

As someone who played D1 football, the typical way this is coached is to slowly backpedal out of bounds and if someone gets close throw the ball 50 yards downfield out of bounds

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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 Vanderbilt Commodores 28d ago

Huh. They don’t coach that at NC State apparently.

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u/Gjallarhorn-Knight 28d ago

I mean my coach was fucking Tommy Spangler who got fired at fucking PC - so if he knew it you’d think most would

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u/TallBoy24 Clemson • Coastal Carolina 28d ago

Go blue hose

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u/danimal6000 NC State Wolfpack 28d ago

No. No we don’t. Might be a poiof emphasis next year