Big 12 refs completely botched the ending of the Texas Tech-Baylor game. According to FOX’s Dean Blandino, the NFL’s vice president of officiating from 2013-17, a legal snap must move from the ground in one motion and leave the center’s hands. In other words, the center can’t double clutch the snap for deke out the defense, and he can’t keep the ball and charge forward on a center-sneak.
Tell me what’s illegal about this snap.
That snap, which was not double clutched and left the center’s hands, resulted in a Texas Tech fumble recovery in the top of the first overtime in a 20-20 game. But instead of a potentially game-ending fumble, it was the most fortuitous penalty in the history of Baylor football.
