Delay of game?

[bigwes68]

Originally posted by mcrowder
Bigwes - a LOT of the time, a false start by the offense actually ends up helping the offense. Example - Detroit vs Dallas, the Lions committed a false start, which no one on the field heard - and then threw an interception. To the casual observer, the false start helped the offense. To us, we know the play never happened... just as the spike never happened in the game you are referring to.

If it was a delay or a false start, though, committed while trying to conserve time, did the officials run off any clock, and/or start the clock on the ready, as they probably should have?

No clock was run off and the clock started on the snap. It was as if he called it as a foul during the play (even though he gave the "dead ball" signal).

Seems from what I've pieced together, the officials just messed up. But it really didn't have any direct impact on the game (although it could have if UT had scored on the fourth-down play on which the ball was snapped with :01 left).