One controversial play came out of Auburn’s BCS championship win over Oregon last night, and it was that fourth quarter run from Auburn running back Stephen Dyer. Dyer’s roll-and-run over an Oregon defender looked eerily similar to that of Arkansas tight end D.J. Williams in last week’s Sugar Bowl.
In both instances, the runner appeared to be down while rolling over the top of the defender, but instead got up and kept running. You can see where Williams and Dyer each had his wrist touch the ground at one point during the run. The guys at Mocksession put together a great video for it, which we have for you after the jump.
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What about the blatant delay of game on 3rd and 12 by Auburn in the 4th quarter that wasn’t called? You could see the play clock hit double zeros and the ball still wasn’t snapped. Should’ve moved AU back to a 3rd and 17 situation.
That was good forensic analysis.
Looks like CSI: BCS is closer than I thought.
the big difference, and what was explained in the arkansas game, was that the hand with the ball was down by the arkansas player, actually it was his wrist/back of hand, as clearly seen in the headline photo. Its the opposite hand, palm down in the auburn game. big difference. roll tide.
Don’t care, I won the 4th quarter in my squares pool, so I will continue to dance La Cucaracha around a pile of cash.
Is this blog now 100% football?
lacedog is 100% accurate with his comment. Ducks lose. Suck it.
I’m examining my hand/wrist. It looks like my hand starts about an inch lower than it feels like it starts when I touch where the two meet. Does the rule state where the wrist actually ends and the hand begins. Is it where it looks like, or where it feels like? Otto’s right, we need CSI on this.
Also, I love touching myself.
tak that you yanky luvin redneks!!!1 ayeseesee all the way! we dun winned 5 in arows naw, thats a a hole decade for you dum sonabichs up in the negra luvin north. role tide role!!
i dun told you bassturds you caint mes wit the SEC, i dun caled it to, tigors dun roasted them ducks from oragan… mor like oracaint! caint win gainst my ayeseesee and caint get no luvin from my sweet sweet geraldine… you also caint deny our goaty-man luv… nawway. role tide!!
I was waiting for SEC Rebal to make an appearance.
“negra luvin north”
Time to update my hometown for work to this.
after reviewing the evidence, looks like both calls were wrong. I never saw the Arkansas player’s wrist touch the ground. just the back of his hand, whereas Dyer’s wrist clearly touched.
I didn’t understand why all the fans in yellow and green kept giving the old DDP Diamond Cutter sign all night.
Whatever. Until Oregon changes their “Ducks” team, they deserve to be shorted on every call. Especially since they produced such mega quarterbacks like Akili Smith and Joey Harrington.
1. Back of the hand =/= front for rules purposes.
2. Watch the end of the unc v UT game. That’s what Musburger was alluding to when he said ” these crews have had issues”.
3. Mark May hit the nail on the head when he said that the ncaa favors the big-10 and pac-10. (See Ohio State University)
4. When it comes to refs, ACC has the worst. Regardless of the sport.
Pretty obvious to me that there is a difference between the two. Arkansas’ player was down as soon as the back of his wrist on the hand the ball was in is on the ground. The Auburn’s player only touched the ground with a free hand to keep balance, which happens all the time in football, for instance any short yardage running play up the middle where there is fighting for yards in a pile, or when people plant a hand on the ground while stretching in a dive for the end zone. Either way college football is a joke, so who really cares. Not allowed to retire than un-retire, so I don’t like it…(gunslings a tear out of one eye but it is intercepted before it hits the ground)
It’s Michael Dyer, not Stephen
Forget the wrist/palm issue. The right ankle clearly is DOWN at 1:32 as a result of the initial take down. Booth was concentrating on the hand and blew the call.
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It does not matter, (a. he was not down last I checked knee has to touch and that has been the rule before the forward pass) AU was dropping the hammer on the ducks at that point, next run would have been the same result in the last drive we had to pass once to go 80 yards in 2 minutes. It’s not like Oregon did not get a break when the ref set a pick on the last big run that set up the score when we were on him like a blanket, but that happens. AU won the NC no question don’t whine when it hurts. Oregon’s o-line got drilled the whole game and the d-line was slowly taking their beating. It was still a great game and Oregon has a great team and excellent coach. WAR DAMN EAGLE!
If you called Dyer down on this play you would have to review every run where a player put his hand on the ground to keep his balance and determine if just enough of the inside portion of his wrist toughed the tuff so as to make him down. That would ruin the game. The Ark. kid is down because the hand that touched the ground had the ball in it and it was the back of his hand. You don’t use the back of your hand to keep your balance. I’m just amazed that the Big 10 refs were so aware as to not blow the wistle. The did a great job calling that game. And as for the guy who complained about them not calling delay of game. Well that was because AU called time out before the clock ran out from the sidelines. Great Game.