ACC confirms offsides penalty
The ACC confirmed Sunday that Clemson defensive tackle Rennie Moore was offsides on a goal-line play in the third quarter of Georgia Tech’s 31-17 win over the Tigers Saturday. On the play, Moore split two Tech linemen and forced and recovered a fumble of quarterback Tevin Washington, ending the Yellow Jackets’ drive at the Clemson 3-yard line.
Replays indicated that Moore had entered the neutral zone prior to the snap, but no call was made on the play. Tech coach Paul Johnson said “I can’t wait to see the film because I’m pretty sure the guy was offsides down on the goal line when we fumbled the ball.”
An offsides could would have permitted Tech to repeat third down inside the 1-yard line. A touchdown would have given the Jackets a 38-10 lead with about 3:20 to play in the third quarter. Instead, Clemson took the next possession 97 yards for a touchdown to draw the score to 31-17, which held up as the final score.
Washington said it was an offsides call in his opinion.
In the game, Clemson was penalized five times for 30 yards. Tech was penalized four times for 23 yards.
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TD
October 31st, 2011
10:52 am
Along those logical lines then the insects will win one of the next ten against UGA. Aren’t statistics just wonderful along with trend analysis?
Toothless Dawg
October 31st, 2011
10:54 am
“”Florida has a brutal schedule this year”"
Hey Tampa Gator, go cry somewhere else
1980 was so long ago
October 31st, 2011
10:57 am
Sounds like old TD can’t handle the reality of GT taking the national stage again
Tamap Gator
October 31st, 2011
10:58 am
No crying….just stating the facts. Not everyone gets to play in a pushover conference like yourselves. There are actually multiple teams in the league that can win the NC. Not sure anyone in your league can actually win a BCS game. Does not happen too often and when you go out of conference in the postseason the results aren’t too good now are they?
TD
October 31st, 2011
11:00 am
National stage? Now that’s rich. When was your last championship in football? Have you won the All Cupcake Conference lately?
GT FAN IN PA
October 31st, 2011
11:01 am
JD- I never like to round robin how teams play one another- I agree if UGA could look past Tech if they make the championship game could be ours to take- I don’t see USC getting by Ark- I really think that is what happend two years ago when Tech looked past UGA- and then CPJ made his worderful quote which mutt nation likes to say- “bigger fish to fry” for me I say throw Hot sauce on every fish and eat the one that is front of you- VT is our next fish.
TD
October 31st, 2011
11:02 am
Lose two games to unranked teams and beat an overrated team and you are on national stage? Last I checked you were still ranked below big brother who runs the state. Oh I know you will say “This is our year” just like you babble every other year. But you know what in the end you end up losing every year except one out of ten. Hope springs eternal for a win against big brother doesn’t it?
juvenal
October 31st, 2011
11:07 am
only way any of y’all are my brothers is if you’re Christian…..
Mike
October 31st, 2011
12:02 pm
Nice win nerds. It is what it is though, just another win against an ACC team. Want a cookie? Not as great a win over an SEC powerhouse in Florida. Nighty nerds, gotta be up early for the 1st shift at the QT in the morn.—Im pretty sure a win over a #5 ACC team> a lose to a #5 MW team like Boise State. Esp. When UGA was their BIGGEST game of the year.
Cant wait till Clemson POUNDS usc, and fsu DESTROYS uf, and of course our win over you nad licking imbreads.
Mike
October 31st, 2011
12:06 pm
Inbreads,,,,it was a typo
Billy Mac
October 31st, 2011
12:25 pm
Tech wins 31-17 and they are upset over a missed offsides penalty/fumble? Paul Johnson is an a-hole. How about DJ Howard’s fumple in the first quarter? His elbow hit the ground before the ball came out and you don’t hear Clemson fans whining.
Tech needs to get to Charlotte and we beat Wake and NC State then we’ll see.
gt man
October 31st, 2011
12:32 pm
seriously folks Jimmy is the janitor at QT. All I want to know is how did he qualify for the job he is a 3.25 per hr.man
Wrecker
October 31st, 2011
12:40 pm
Billy Mac: I wouldn’t count on automatically beating Wake Forest. N.C. State will be a pushover.
Mike
October 31st, 2011
12:43 pm
Billy Mac…they reviewed that. Clearly not enough to say he DIDNT fumble. This was clear as GlASS!!!!
TechFan
October 31st, 2011
1:32 pm
Billy Mac…Watching a television helps to see if it was a fumble or not. Listening to the radio, while you’re minding your sheep doesn’t count
A2k
October 31st, 2011
1:51 pm
It was a horrible (lack of a) call. I was going to be real mad if we lost that game by a touchdown.
Tampa Gator
October 31st, 2011
1:52 pm
Nice try and sounding like a UGA fan there Jason. As usual your remarks are quite a hoot.
1980 was so long ago
October 31st, 2011
2:10 pm
“”"National stage? Now that’s rich. When was your last championship in football?”"”
Well TD, come down to North Avenue and you can see the modern version of the National Championship trophy, (er, that would be 1990) when when the last time uga won one?
1980 was so long ago – man, that just has to kill those mutts that us nerds took that thunder.
Big Stingers
October 31st, 2011
3:41 pm
the enemy of my enemy, is my friend
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Bill A
October 31st, 2011
8:52 pm
I thing the linesmen was checking out the cheerleaders or something. It was a totally blown call.
wrweckmaniac
November 1st, 2011
11:15 am
So the score was actually 38-17. Not bad over the #5 team in the country. I can’t wait for some juicy
Dawg Meat !!! And give me some more Sims up the middle and some more HIGH SCHOOL OFFENSE. I was releived to see that Groh has found a high school defense to go with the Tech high school offense.
wreckmaniac
November 1st, 2011
11:22 am
Actually, the off-sides was very smart move by Clemson. They had nothing to lose but a few inches. Very smart . The doofus refs need to be fired.
billybuzz
November 3rd, 2011
3:29 pm
Well, what is the ACC going to do about this oversight? Are they going to discipline the officials looking down the line of scrimmage? Is this stuff going to keep happening, or are we going to get officials that actually know the rules and can see the play?