"High hit" call

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

It looks like a helmet to helmet hit or a hit to the head. These are POEs at the NCAA level to be called. And the player launched which is a tell tail sign of this kind of act. It was hard to see, but I think that is why this was called. No good replay makes this hard to determine.

Peace

I agree with what you say. The replay is poor. However, the calling official is looking through the players and it would be very hard for him to see helmet-to-helmet contact. Slowing it down on YouTube, it looked like shoulder to shoulder contact, but I wouldn't put money on that.