You know, they are saying that the clock cannot stop until the official on the field says so, but that is obviously not true. Think of all the instant replays that result in, among other things, the clock being reset, not to where an official on the field signaled it should stop, but to where it actually was when the replay official determines the play ended. And of course in the Nebraska game, the issue was not when an official stopped the clock, it was when the ball hit something out of bounds--thereby stopping the clock. EDIT--now they are explaining that his forward progress had been stopped before he stepped out of bounds, which ended the play but kept the clock running since NC had no timeouts. SECOND EDIT--Even though the clock would not have stopped, the official should have blown his whistle as soon as he determined that forward progress was stopped. I'm gonna listen to the play again, but if there was no whistle, that means that the official had not determined the play was over before the runner stepped out of bounds, which means stepping out of bounds should have stopped the clock.
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Agree x 2
Last edited: Sep 13, 2019