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Rice lost to FIU (the one Butch Davis coaches), 13-7. This does not bode well for Rice's chances of making it out of the Bottom 10 this season. For some reason, some random company was streaming the game on Facebook, which allowed me to see the bizarre ending sequence: FIU has the ball, up 13-7, on 4th down at their own 15, with 5 seconds left in the game. The random commentators correctly predict what happens next: the punter receives the snap and then runs around the end zone until time expires and takes a safety. The officials call holding on, well, basically everyone on the kicking team. Our resident rules expert left us a couple seasons ago, but I'm pretty sure the rule here is supposed to be that the game ends regardless of the penalty. 13-9, final score, everyone go home now. Right? Nope. The official initially announces that Rice is declining the penalty, and that that results in a safety and an extra untimed down (for the safety kickoff, which presumably the punter is going to boot straight into the air so no one can possibly run it back for a TD). Some discussion ensues with both coaches. Then the official announces that Rice is accepting the penalty, and somehow that results in an untimed down where FIU has the ball, ten yards back from the previous spot. FIU kneels, and the game is over, with the score 13-7. If these are the correct options by rule (they're not), then Bailiff is an idiot: Rice's minuscule chances of winning are higher if FIU has to kick the ball to them (and booting the safety kick out of bounds IS a penalty that carries an untimed down), and he takes two (meaningless) points off the board. The C-USA crew managed to make two different bad calls on the same play, and David Bailiff took the worse of the two options. Just one more log to add to Bailiff's hot seat.
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