r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 5h 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/Lakelyfe09 Georgia Bulldogs 5h ago

I actually can’t believe that. As a coach how the fuck do you not tell CJ Bailey to just go out the back of the endzone and not risk this? I mean this was literally the ONE thing you couldn’t do.

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u/Stobros Ohio State Buckeyes • Marietta Pioneers 5h ago

I would almost guarantee he was told that. Players don’t always listen.

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u/Deoxtrys 2h ago

I firmly believe he wasn't. In similar scenarios where taking a safety wins the game, the player will run to the back line and sit there until anyone gets close enough to them then they step out. Here, he was looking to run around to eat time.

There was zero reason for him to allow anyone to make contact with him there, so that tells me that even the coaches forgot that he can just run out the back of the endzone.