“I might remind you that Nebraska lost to Texas last year because the refs put one second back on the clock... That one second only got put back on the clock because it altered the outcome of the game.”
Butterdezillion, I’m one of your BIGGEST fans.
However, the reason that one second got put back on the clock is because... (Drum Roll)... McCoy’s incomplete pass fell dead out of bounds with... (Here it is now)... One second left on the clock!
Replays confirmed it.
Grapes are sometimes sour, I know. (OU still sucks.)
You’ll get your chance for vengeance in two weeks.
Hook ‘em!
Just out of curiosity, what happens in two weeks?
lol. I know, I know. But how many times did the clock accidentally tick off an extra second during the game? If we wanted to go scrutinize it all I’m sure we could find a place where a second should have been taken off, and that would have neutralized the one time of scrutiny where the second was found to be rightly added (and yes, the replay showed that the second was rightly added at the end).
It’s just a little bit like the recounting of ballots, and the democratic poll worker asking how many votes they needed to come up with. It’s easy to scrutinize and scrounge up the seconds, or votes, when you know how many you need. Not so easy to show the same scrutiny for EVERY second, or vote, when you don’t know how critical it could end up being.
It was really just poor clock management on McCoy’s part, an unexpected gift to Nebraska anyway, that the clock ran out. It was kind of a relief for his sake that it didn’t end up costing Texas the game. But the principle of all the other seconds that may not have been exactly accurate coming back to bite us in the butt because we didn’t scrounge around for seconds the whole game long is what stung.
We could have made that game a living hell if we had contested EVERY SECOND of the clock. If the people running the clock had screwed up because we didn’t have a chance of winning anyway, and the refs refused to let us contest the running of the clock because we “couldn’t win anyway” we would have suffered an injury - whether or not the game came down to one second or not. If we get cheated of one second we get cheated of one second, even if one second doesn’t cost us the game. Being cheated of anything rightfully ours is an injury. That’s the main point.
And I still love Texas and Texans (my in-laws are Texans so what can I say? lol)