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Posted on 9/6/18 at 10:42 am
Posted on 9/6/18 at 10:42 am
I'm, relatively, a young-uhn, so I wasn't familiar with this game, but this is the most UGA-USC ending in the history of this series.
Final play
Georgia's up 31-26 with 4 seconds left and the ball in Columbia. Quarterback James Jackson ran with the ball until the clock hit zeros and then threw the ball down in celebration.
South Carolina picked it up and ran it into the end-zone, but apparently back then in college, you couldn't advance a fumble, so the ball was dead where it was picked up and since the clock ran out the game ended. Georgia still won.
What the frick was up with that rule
Was anybody here at that game?
Final play
Georgia's up 31-26 with 4 seconds left and the ball in Columbia. Quarterback James Jackson ran with the ball until the clock hit zeros and then threw the ball down in celebration.
South Carolina picked it up and ran it into the end-zone, but apparently back then in college, you couldn't advance a fumble, so the ball was dead where it was picked up and since the clock ran out the game ended. Georgia still won.
What the frick was up with that rule
Was anybody here at that game?
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Posted on 9/6/18 at 10:46 am to BranchDawg
I was, I was 6 that was one of the 1st road games my grandparents took me to,I remember some kid close to my age at the time crying in his Carolina jersey as we left., I went in 88 also when we lost and it was unGodly hot.
This post was edited on 9/6/18 at 10:49 am
Posted on 9/6/18 at 10:48 am to BranchDawg
That was a few years before I was born... but I did watch the replay of that game on ESPN. I was extremely disappointed haha.
Posted on 9/6/18 at 11:11 am to BranchDawg
I was a kid when they played that game and if I remember correctly, what Jackson did was the reason why my dad and his friends started calling him James "Throw it in the Dirt" Jackson.
Posted on 9/6/18 at 11:13 am to BranchDawg
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South Carolina picked it up and ran it into the end-zone, but apparently back then in college, you couldn't advance a fumble
Wtf kind of retarded rule is that?
Posted on 9/6/18 at 11:22 am to GetCocky11
Hey, at least teams don't get penalized when fans are too loud still.
Posted on 9/6/18 at 11:24 am to BranchDawg
I remember watching it live on ESPN that night. I know the South Carolina coaches were bummed,but they knew full well what the rule was. Dooley's reaction after the game is like some guy who woke up on a different planet.
Posted on 9/6/18 at 11:38 am to BranchDawg
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but apparently back then in college, you couldn't advance a fumble, so the ball was dead where it was picked up and since the clock ran out the game ended
Hmm. Seems like it's probably related to the fact that he was behind the LoS. Pretty sure the rule used to be that the offense had to have made forward progress for the defense to recover the fumble. Probably just out of sheer laziness to keep the officials from having to decide what exactly the QB did in backfield to cause the ball to leave his hands.
Posted on 9/6/18 at 11:39 am to BranchDawg
The rule back then was a fumble across the line of scrimmage was returnable, but not in the backfield unless it was recovered in the air. The rule was changed to its current iteration in 1989.
Posted on 9/6/18 at 11:44 am to BranchDawg
I was 18 when this game was played, and I was on the very first date with the lady who would eventually become my wife. She's a UGA fan, too, so we tuned in on the car radio to find out what the score was, and it was still on and in the closing minutes..so we heard Larry Munson make this call.
Munson was a bit discombobulated over it at first, but jubilant, as usual, when the ruling was made.
About 20 years later, I met James Jackson; he was the cousin of a co-worker. The co-worker was a big FSU guy, but knew how much of a UGA fan I am, so he introduced us. First thing I did was ask Jackson about this play. Jackson claimed that he knew a fumble couldn't be advanced at that time. Sounded like BS to me, but I just laughed with him and went along with it.
Munson was a bit discombobulated over it at first, but jubilant, as usual, when the ruling was made.
About 20 years later, I met James Jackson; he was the cousin of a co-worker. The co-worker was a big FSU guy, but knew how much of a UGA fan I am, so he introduced us. First thing I did was ask Jackson about this play. Jackson claimed that he knew a fumble couldn't be advanced at that time. Sounded like BS to me, but I just laughed with him and went along with it.
This post was edited on 9/6/18 at 11:45 am
Posted on 9/6/18 at 12:02 pm to Floyd Dawg
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he rule back then was a fumble across the line of scrimmage was returnable, but not in the backfield unless it was recovered in the air. The rule was changed to its current iteration in 1989.
Check out the brain on Floyd Dawg!
Posted on 9/6/18 at 12:06 pm to BranchDawg
I don’t really think it matters because had you been able to advance a fumble then he would have never thrown the ball on the ground.
Posted on 9/6/18 at 12:41 pm to BranchDawg
I remember watching that game on TV when I was a kid, I got so excited until I realized they blew the play dead
I love both of those uniforms in that game.
I love both of those uniforms in that game.
Posted on 9/6/18 at 12:52 pm to BranchDawg
I remember the game and knew it was going to be called back.
'86 was a weird year for us. We had a lot of talent but lost some weird games.
'87 was our best team in history until just this millennium. But that '86 team and season a lot of weird things happened. We had two ties that year I think to Va Tech and Clemson and we lost to Nebraska, Georgia and NC State by one or two points each. All of them involved a lot of strange calls that season.
'86 was a weird year for us. We had a lot of talent but lost some weird games.
'87 was our best team in history until just this millennium. But that '86 team and season a lot of weird things happened. We had two ties that year I think to Va Tech and Clemson and we lost to Nebraska, Georgia and NC State by one or two points each. All of them involved a lot of strange calls that season.
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