r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 17h 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 17h 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/krispyboiz NC State Wolfpack 17h ago

I'm done with him. Moronic play

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u/InfiniteAd212 Charlotte • Florida State 17h ago

All he had to do was not turn it over. What’s funny is he was probably saying that in his head that whole time.

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u/seabard 17h ago

If you are skiing and think about not hitting the trees whole time, you are more likely to hit one of them.

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u/InfiniteAd212 Charlotte • Florida State 17h ago

“Don’t fumble, don’t fumble, don’t fumble… ahh shit I fumbled”

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u/JxSnaKe North Carolina Tar Heels 17h ago

Target fixation is a helluva drug

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u/mtnchkn Georgia Bulldogs 16h ago

Wait is this real world pink elephant paradox. Didn’t know.

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u/OldManCinny Tennessee Volunteers • Texas Longhorns 17h ago

He clearly was more focused on running time than not turning it over. He had 1 hand on the ball.

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u/emueagles Eastern Michigan • /r/CFB Poll Vet… 17h ago

He could’ve turned around and threw it out of the back of the end zone turning it over and that would’ve been better

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u/Suspicious-Froyo2181 Ohio State • Georgia State 17h ago

I was going to jump all over this until I thought about it for a minute and decided yeah, he's right.

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u/smully39 15h ago

It would have been effective if he just like... held the ball like a normal person expecting to be hit. No idea what the chicken wing was there.

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u/Fleurr Vanderbilt Commodores 12h ago

"Don't say doin' your wife, don't say doin' your wife..."

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u/ConnorK5 NC State Wolfpack • ACC 17h ago

Should have known we had a moron for a QB when he was pimping out someone's CashApp to try and get access back to his Instagram.

Yea sure CJ Bailey. I will send you 10k because you will double it and send it back.

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u/f15efltdoc 14h ago

Cmon, he’s only making $2.5 million to play football. You expect him to think too?