drion97
03-08-2007, 06:07 PM
Having not seen the game today, I'm not sure if Clemson got hosed or not. But it did make me think of an interesting question that came up in College Football earlier this season with the Oklahoma/Oregon botched call game.
Basically, if the committee wanted to take the winner of Fla St/Clemson to the tourny, and lets say Clemson CLEARLY gets hosed. No question, a bad call changes the outcome of the game. Would the committee ever take the loser of that game because had things been called properly they would've been the winner? I doubt this would ever happen, but how gutsy would it be?! Maybe not a foul call, but an obvious blown call in the last 5 seconds...
Note that neither this situation nor the Duke/Clemson game earlier this year would qualify-- as a tie game isn't the same at all. (Speaking of that Duke game, ESPN guys always refer back to the clock incident like Clemson had the win, no problem, until it was stolen away. The BEST Clemson could do was get overtime in that situation in Cameron. Hardly a sure thing)
Basically, if the committee wanted to take the winner of Fla St/Clemson to the tourny, and lets say Clemson CLEARLY gets hosed. No question, a bad call changes the outcome of the game. Would the committee ever take the loser of that game because had things been called properly they would've been the winner? I doubt this would ever happen, but how gutsy would it be?! Maybe not a foul call, but an obvious blown call in the last 5 seconds...
Note that neither this situation nor the Duke/Clemson game earlier this year would qualify-- as a tie game isn't the same at all. (Speaking of that Duke game, ESPN guys always refer back to the clock incident like Clemson had the win, no problem, until it was stolen away. The BEST Clemson could do was get overtime in that situation in Cameron. Hardly a sure thing)