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Old Thu Sep 04, 2008, 09:35am
cmathews cmathews is offline
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from the just looks bad dept

Ohio at Wyoming.... Wyoming kicks off into the endzone touchback. Ball on the 20 skip ahead to 3rd down, 3rd down ends with the ball touching the 30 yd line. Wyoming asks for and is granted a measurement, and it is a couple links short....4th down.....it turned out to not be a big deal, as Ohio went for it and made it....it does illustrate some common sense...if we start on the 20 and the ball ends up touching the 30 it is a first down...DO NOT MEASURE...my guess is the chains weren't moved up to the field to be clipped, but rather clipped from 2yds back and thus were off a couple links...
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