The action, Burks said, is allowed under Rule 7- 6-a, which states an offensive back, “may hand the ball forward to another back only if both are behind their scrimmage line and the player handing the ball forward has not had their entire body beyond the neutral zone." The ball never crossed the line of scrimmage and there was never a loss of possession, not a fumble, so this play was a forward handoff behind the line of scrimmage,” Burks said.
“The reviewable aspects of the play were position of the ball in relation to the line of scrimmage, and if possession was ever lost by the offense. “We’ve just got to find ways to make plays,” Leipold added.Īfter the game, the Big 12’s coordinator of officials, Greg Burks, provided further explanation of the fourth-and-1 play via a released statement.
While KU’s head coach described himself as “enthusiastic” with officials at times during games, he said he understands when calls and explanations are made. “Those are tough calls on (forward) progress and that. “I’m not going to comment on that right now,” Leipold replied. KU head coach Lance Leipold was asked following the loss whether he thought his team was “robbed” of having a chance to go down the field and win (KU trailed 28-23 at the time of the strange fourth down play). The officiating crew ruled it was a legal handoff behind the line of scrimmage. The QB then picked up enough yardage for the first down. But as he spun and tried to keep his progress going, OU’s quarterback, Caleb Williams, came over and took the ball out of Brooks’ hands before Brooks was ruled down. Brooks was all but stopped in the backfield on a fourth-and-1 rush attempt from OU’s own 46-yard line in the game’s final minutes. The 12-play drive that took more than five minutes off the clock, and by the time Kennedy Brooks ran in for 4-yard TD with 42 seconds left, KU was down two scores without enough time to battle back in front of an announced crowd of 26,321.īrooks (24 carries, 79 yards, two TDs) got the chance to seal the road win because of an unplanned handoff of sorts a few plays earlier. The Sooners (8-0 overall, 5-0 Big 12) put together their fifth consecutive touchdown drive of the second half half in the game’s final minutes to complete their comeback road win.
3 Oklahoma got out of David Booth Kansas Stadium with a 35-23 victory on Saturday.Īfter going scoreless in the first half, the Sooners had to rally and convert a bizarre fourth down late in the game to head back to Norman, Okla., with their undefeated record intact. An upset bid for the long struggling Kansas football program came with a dose of fourth quarter drama before No.
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