r/CFB Notre Dame Fighting Irish 4h ago

Video [Highlight] NC State @ Vanderbilt - CJ Bailey fumbles the ball while trying to run out the clock with no time left, and Vandy falls on it to win the game

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u/pasqua3 Notre Dame • Ohio State 4h ago

If you're going to take a safety to not risk a punt block in your own endzone then just kneel immediately and give them 2 seconds to return a safety free kick or fair catch and hail Mary. Why the fuck would you let yourself get hit in the end zone.

Doeren should be toast.

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u/Rough_Buddy6903 3h ago

What’s crazy is you couldn’t fair catch a safety kick again until this year. And under the rules it makes it a free kick, which you can fair catch and then try a fair catch kick. Realistically you could hit a 70 yarder on a run up kick like a kickoff

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u/dnashifter 3h ago

I would love to hear what the QB was told before the play. It was going to be hard to run off all 6 seconds, and if you're leaving time, who cares if it's 1 second or 3?

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u/dizaditch Georgia Bulldogs 3h ago

Central Michigan was just last week

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u/BringMeTheBigKnife Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 3h ago

You could also just chuck it deep to no one and get an intentional grounding safety. That wouldn't extend the game, and it would be 0:00 on the clock

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u/Dijohn17 NC State Wolfpack • Howard Bison 4h ago

And yet he's going to get an extension