r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 7d ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] UCLA Defeats Oregon 17-15

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
UCLA 3 7 0 7 17
Oregon 6 0 0 9 15
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u/DW_Handicapping Oregon Ducks 7d ago

Ok so disclaimer im a Duck fan and Oregon deserved to lose and UCLA was the better team...

 But why did they make a big deal of announcing the ball  would be at the half yard line and then literally put it at the 2 for the conversion? That was bizzare. And then no one said anything more about it?

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u/HurricanesnHendrick Miami Hurricanes • Georgia Bulldogs 7d ago

Was it because a 2 pt conversion is an all or nothing play? There is no “from the end of the run”?

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u/Balphon Oregon Ducks 7d ago

Should have been half the distance to the goal at least but they spotted it at like the 1.5.

That whole sequence was bizarre.

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u/mstr_yda Arizona State Sun Devils • Sickos 7d ago

> 1.5 yard line

So I didn’t watch this game, but the NCAA rulebook says that tries are taken from the 3-yard line. Could it be that the referees did give half the distance to the goal, but misspoke about “half yard line”?

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u/Mcpops1618 Oregon Ducks • Calgary Dinos 7d ago

They respotted and said because it was personal foul it would go from the end of the initial try for 2, so it would go to the. 1/2 yard line and then a bunch of talking to coaches and the. Ball was at 1.5 yard line but no announcement was made

It was bizarre

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u/1850ChoochGator Oregon State • Washington 7d ago

I wonder if was the idiot refs going “one half yard line” as in 1/2 while some other idiot ref said “one and a half yard line”

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u/Super-Toe6694 7d ago

The two point conversion in college is from the 3 yard line, so the 1 and half yardline is half the distance. It was the correct placement. The announcers didn't correcr themselves. 

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u/Ondeon Iowa Hawkeyes • Dark Owls ESC Dijon 7d ago edited 7d ago

Not according to the CBS rules analyst.

Edit: Apparently some people are saying Gene is incorrect here. So I have no idea.

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u/dr_funk_13 Oregon Ducks • Big Ten 7d ago

This was my thinking.

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u/OSRSTheRicer James Madison Dukes 7d ago

Thank you, I thought I was going crazy hearing that.

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u/Remote_Elevator_281 Oregon Ducks 7d ago

The commentator ref also said it should be at the 1/2 yard line. Refs fucked it up and Oregon coaching staff didn’t say a damn thing about it.

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u/TheForeFactor UCLA Bruins • Illinois Fighting Illini 7d ago

Okay, this is beyond me rule wise so idk where it should have been spotted

But I'm pretty sure the Oregon coaching staff said some damn things about it. It was like four minutes between the two tries because the coaches kept going onto the field and talking to the refs presumably about the placement for the second try.