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Our friend at the Merc chimes in with his Pac 12 Power Rankings.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegespor...on-fumble/

1. Stanford
2. Utah
3. $C
4. UCLA
5. Oregon
6. ASU
7. WSU
8. c.a.l.
9. UW
10. UA
11. Colorado
12. OSU

Not that different from the folks on here.


Perhaps of more interest, Wilner chimes in on the McCaffrey fumble. He says he talked to the conference VP of Officiating for the scoop. I don't know what exactly he was told, as there are no direct quotations, but it seems to me that the VP told him about the loose ball rule, but Wilner didn't understand and is still focused on the held ball rules.

Two rules applied as the booth examined the call on the field: Rule 4-2-2-a (Held ball out of bounds) and 4-2-3-a (Loose ball out of bounds).

So in order to overturn the call on the field, the booth needed conclusive evidence that 1) McCaffrey fumbled while in-bounds and 2) that WSU’s Ivan McLennan recovered while in-bounds.

The issue for the loose ball out of bounds part is NOT whether McLennan recovered while in bounds, it is whether McCaffrey contacted the ball while McCaffrey was out of bounds and before McLennan had control - which looked like a pretty clear yes to me.

The rule reads,

Rule 4 
Section 2
...
Loose Ball Out of Bounds
ARTICLE 3
a. A ball not in player possession, other than a kick that scores a field goal, is out of bounds when it touches the ground, a player, a game official or anything else that is out of bounds, or that is on or outside a boundary line.

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Our friend at the Merc chimes in with his Pac 12 Power Rankings.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegespor...on-fumble/

1. Stanford
2. Utah
3. $C
4. UCLA
5. Oregon
6. ASU
7. WSU
8. c.a.l.
9. UW
10. UA
11. Colorado
12. OSU

Not that different from the folks on here.


Perhaps of more interest, Wilner chimes in on the McCaffrey fumble. He says he talked to the conference VP of Officiating for the scoop. I don't know what exactly he was told, as there are no direct quotations, but it seems to me that the VP told him about the loose ball rule, but Wilner didn't understand and is still focused on the held ball rules.

Two rules applied as the booth examined the call on the field: Rule 4-2-2-a (Held ball out of bounds) and 4-2-3-a (Loose ball out of bounds).

So in order to overturn the call on the field, the booth needed conclusive evidence that 1) McCaffrey fumbled while in-bounds and 2) that WSU’s Ivan McLennan recovered while in-bounds.

The issue for the loose ball out of bounds part is NOT whether McLennan recovered while in bounds, it is whether McCaffrey contacted the ball while McCaffrey was out of bounds and before McLennan had control - which looked like a pretty clear yes to me.

The rule reads,

Rule 4 
Section 2
...
Loose Ball Out of Bounds
ARTICLE 3
a. A ball not in player possession, other than a kick that scores a field goal, is out of bounds when it touches the ground, a player, a game official or anything else that is out of bounds, or that is on or outside a boundary line.