You can watch the entire wild play in the video below. As Kroll was going down, he lateraled the ball off to Malik Fountain, who sprinted to the end zone.
Quarterback Cooper Rush launched a pass to Jesse Kroll, who somehow made the catch. That’s exactly what Central Michigan did. However, an intentional grounding penalty gave the Chippewas one final play to make something crazy happen. Instead of punting on their final drive, Oklahoma State decided to throw on 4th and 13 to run the clock out. However, the Cowboys had taken the lead back on a two-yard touchdown to go up 27-24 with five minutes remaining. Saturday on Yahoo Sports.The Chippewas had managed to take the lead earlier in the fourth quarter on Saturday. Nick Bromberg is the assistant editor of Dr. If OSU wants to again contend for the Big 12 title, Rudolph and WR James Washington can’t carry the offense themselves. Freshman RB Justice Hill was OSU’s leading rusher with 31 yards on five carries, though 17 came on one play. Walsh is now graduated and OSU ran the ball just 16 times when you don’t count Rudolph’s seven carries (sacks count as rushing attempts) for -9 yards. The Cowboys struggled with the run in 2015 but were an effective red zone team thanks to the running ability of backup QB JW Walsh, who had 13 rushing touchdowns. Rush threw for 361 yards and four touchdowns while Oklahoma State’s inability to have or sustain an effective running game played a big role. The Cowboys had no business letting CMU hang around for as long as they did. Oklahoma State was a 17.5-point favorite entering the game. The result of the game was not changed, but the officiating crew was suspended.īut this isn’t all the officials’ fault either. Officials admitted that Miami should not have beaten Duke on a kickoff return with no time left in 2015 as a Miami player was down. Despite the error, this will not change the outcome of the contest.” “The crew made a misapplication of the rule and should not have extended the contest with one final play. “The Mid-American Conference officiating crew from Saturday afternoon’s Central Michigan at Oklahoma State contest made an error on the final play of regulation,” Collegiate Officiating Consortium Coordinator of Football Officials Bill Corollo said in a statement. The Big 12, which provided the replay crew for the game, also admitted that it erred in not calling for a replay review to ensure the rule regarding untimed downs was applied correctly. The outcome of the game won’t be changed. Oklahoma State and coach Mike Gundy won’t go undefeated. “So in that situation, we’ve had the opportunity to run it back through our hierarchy, which includes the national rules editor, and he confirmed that should have been a loss of down and the end of the game at that point, so that extension should not have happened.” There’s an exception to the rule that says if enforcement of the foul involves a loss of down, then that brings the game to an end.
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“There’s a rule that says that the game cannot end on an accepted live ball foul,” O’Dey, a MAC official, said. Here’s what referee Tim O’Dey told the pool reporter after the game. This game will go down in the annals of officiating mistakes as one of the more memorable ones. The Cowboys had the ball and committed a foul (intentional grounding) that includes a loss of down. The NCAA rule book states that a period is extended if a penalty is accepted for a live ball foul but “the period is not extended if the foul is by the team in possession and the statement of the penalty includes loss of down.” The sentence in quotes applies perfectly to Oklahoma State. But here’s why the following play shouldn’t have happened. CMU got the ball on the OSU 49 for its chance to win. The clock ran out.īut with no receivers in pass patterns and Rudolph still in the pocket, he was called for intentional grounding.
The play was for quarterback Mason Rudolph to simply heave the ball as far as he could out of bounds to let the last few seconds expire. The intentional grounding penalty was called when Oklahoma State had fourth down inside CMU territory with four seconds left.