Tipped or not?

[jimed1]

Isn't a d lineman jumping over the offense line also a penalty or is that only in the NFL?

Don't quote me but I think it just can't be jumping the center.

 

[MiramarVol]

You can't jump over the OL anyway. That should have been their 18th penalty.

 

[firedog28]

#47 for the Gumps should have never gotten through our line.Fire out and hit the guy even if you bounce off,he doesn't get in there

 

[Tman44]

Tipped, yes. False start? dunno. Missed penalty 18? dunno. Know what I do know? God is great!

 

[PACKERVOL]

I think I saw just an inch or less of space between the ball and no. 47's finger tips. But then it also looks like maybe his middle finger just barely scrapes the ball at one point. Would love to see a sideline view, too. But really who cares, the ball made it over the goalpost as time expired, and that's all that really counts.

 

[chattaboogie]

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[jackaro]

It is really hard for me to tell from the video. It was definitely close. It does look like McGrath starts to move before the ball got snapped, though. A stickler for the rules (and any Bama fan) would say that should have been called, but at the end of a game like this should that have been flagged?

 

[AllVols]

To me it was tipped, I guess someone needs to ask 47 if he tipped it or not.

 

[wtmvol]

I'm not even sure how it's physically possible for a ball to spin like that if it's not tipped, but 1) I'm not very smart, and 2) If it took a bit of impossible physics to right the wrongs of so many years, I'll take it!

Seriously, it's like in a span of 1 afternoon our team managed to recreate the 2004 Florida game while also redeeming the excruciatingly painful 1990 and 2009 losses to Bama.

 

[mrmax86]

You can hear it tipped. Put on headphones, turn it up as loud as you can stand it, and you can pickup two distinct sounds (very similar to each other). Thump thump. One is the kick, the other is the tip.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

I don't know if Chase McGrath has said but his opinion about the kick should be definitive. SURELY, someone has interviewed him about it.

 

[1973Vol]

My Call is... 47 up the middle tipped and watch his reaction after it went through the uprights.

 

[Caspian]

#47 for the Gumps should have never gotten through our line.Fire out and hit the guy even if you bounce off,he doesn't get in there

I've thought the same thing. Our line just stands in place, static. They've clearly been coached to do that. But it seems like you'd want to at least get a push down low to cut the legs out from under defenders so they can't jump through a gap and block it. Especially in the middle of the line.

 

[vik]

Video proof? Kicker's aloof. Lane Kiffin spoof. Raising the roof. Gumps gonna goof when their title hopes poof.

It don't matter -- Vols broke fiddy!

 

[newyorkvol]

My Call is... 47 up the middle tipped and watch his reaction after it went through the uprights.

Agree with this. Watch his initial reaction as well….like he knew he got some of it. However….not enough!!!!

 

[B81]

I wondered the same thing.

A player can not use another player to launch himself, which is exactly what happened. Also cant line up directly over the center, which happened.

 

[JoAllan]

It’s the new laser Tennessee is using to make sure the ball goes exactly where they want it to.

Causes the ball to look all kinds of ugly…..but apparently it works.

 

[J C Higgins]

Did not know about that until I saw the replay here. But, yes, I think it was tipped and if you look at McGrath's posture while the ball is in flight it looks like he didn't think it would be good.

 

[Kylo]

Clearly tipped. Barely. But tipped.

 

[Shocker0]

I didn't think it was tipped. This video convinced me otherwise.

Awesome of Will Anderson to celebrate with the Vols by throwing his hands up in the "it's good" motion! He may not be a bad guy after all.

 

[BACKDOC]

I've seen about 5 media; Josh Pate's sidekick, AJ McCarron, etc. all say that it was tipped.

 

[mrmax86]

The ball was spinning backwards until it passed 47. Then it was spinning sideways. Definitely tipped.

 

[Bigorange40]

Isn't a d lineman jumping over the offense line also a penalty or is that only in the NFL?

It was a penalty at one time if a player jumped and landed on an offensive lineman. Not sure if the rule has been revised or at least tweaked since it's inception. Remember LSU at Auburn 2004? Auburn won 10-9. Auburn missed the go ahead XP with just over 1 minute to go, but an LSU defender was flagged for landing on an Auburn lineman and they were allowed to re-kick the game winner. That was the year Auburn beat UT twice and went undefeated!

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/...uburn-converts-second-chance-to-stun-lsu.html

 

[WillisWG]

Appearing on ESPN's "College Football Live," McGrath said this week that film from Tennessee's 52-49 win against the Crimson Tide showed Alabama defensive lineman Byron Young tipping his game-winning kick near the line of scrimmage. Young's fingers appeared to graze the ball just enough to slightly alter its trajectory, but not enough to prevent it from going over the crossbar and lifting the Vols to a landmark win under second-year coach Josh Heupel.
McGrath said shortly after Saturday's game that he wasn't sure whether the ball was deflected by an Alabama defender. He said Saturday night that "it wasn’t my cleanest hit." Now he knows why it looked that way.
"I mean, after I hit it, I thought it was going in and honestly didn't know 'til Monday morning when we were watching film that 47 actually got his finger on the ball," McGrath said Tuesday during his appearance on ESPN. "You could see the ref kind of behind me do the signal that it was kind of tipped. But, yeah, it was wild."