ACC says the correct call was made on the fumble at the end of Georgia Tech vs Miami

Georgia Tech stunned Miami on the last play last Saturday night

Author:
Jackson Caudell
Publish date:
Oct 11, 2023 3:28 PM EDT

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Most of the attention that has gone towards Georgia Tech's upset win over Miami has been about the decision by Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal to not kneel the ball down with the game clock under 40 seconds and the Yellow Jackets without any timeouts. Miami opted to try and run the football and running back Don Chaney Jr fumbled the ball, the Yellow Jackets recovered and then drove the ball and scored with one second remaining.

There has been a lot of debate about whether Chaney actually fumbled the ball or his elbow was down before the ball was out, but today, ACC supervisor of officials Alberto Riveron told ESPN that the right call was made at the end of the game.

"We made the right call on the field based on the angles that were afforded to us," Riveron said. "The process and the protocol was followed."

Christian Leary scores the winning touchdown — Georgia Tech defeated Miami in a crazy ending on Saturday night
Nathaniel Caudell

There has not been a lot of mention about Georgia Tech and its ability to get down the field quickly and score on the Hurricanes.

Yellow Jackets head coach Brent Key does not want anyone to forget that.

"Another thing is, I got home and was getting ready to watch the game last night and someone on the TV last night was talking about our game and I told the team that there is this thing about talking about the decisions that were made on their sides of the ball that impacted the game and I told the team and the staff that it was you guys on the field and chose to play that down as hard as you could, you chose to play that down as hard as you could. If you listen to the noise, if you looked at the scoreboard, if you saw the timeouts that we did not have, if you saw the time on the clock, if one person on the defense plays at 90% or 95% on that last play, then we don't get the outcome that we like. We turned it around to go 75 yards in 26 seconds, to go that length of the field... If one person did not play the way that they can, if they had not played hard and played with everything that they have, if they had payed attention to what the clock said or the scoreboard said, then we would not have had that outcome. That is the way that I look at it. Our guys were the ones on the field and chose to play the way you're supposed to play. We challenged them to play 60 minutes and we had to wash a stigma off of us on this football team and we went out and did that."

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