It was more like a 12-15% chance they made it out of there at all after it was replayed on the big screen and we saw what they called PI. The crowd was beyond pissed. I’ve never seen anything like that. I don’t know what the crowd reaction looked like on TV, but in person it was nuts. I still can’t believe they actually reversed it. It was the right thing to do.
Georgia was getting away with face masks and holding all night. I’m not saying those calls would have made a difference, but there’s a reason the crowd wasn’t happy with the officials.
The O played like trash and we deserved to lose. Williams was getting beat liked a rented mule all night. Quinn was either hyper-focused on his primary receiver, checking down to an RB out of the backfield, or just holding onto the ball. He wasn’t going through his progressions. He looked completely uncomfortable. It got to the point that every time he dropped back, I was watching the receivers instead of him to see who was open that he wasn’t throwing to. He played like he wanted the world to know that he doesn’t deserve to be in discussion for Heisman. It was sloppy. I don’t know what’s going on with him.
I still love my Horns, and I honestly do think we could still run the table the rest of the way, but there’s a lot of work to do.
The crowd was visibly pissed- I think there was a combination of some frustration over a couple bad calls, several no calls, and Texas playing like absolute garbage.
Then BOOM, a moment where we can get back in this game and the refs go and "Welcome to the $EC fvckers" us. When they made the call it was a mix of confusion and almost an ironic guffaw-- like "HA HA you're joking, right?"
But you could tell the SECOND they played the replay on Godzillatron. It went from a "WTF is going on" crowd sound to a "TIME FOR A RITUAL SACRIFICE" angry mob. It was like the needle dropped on a Rage Against the Machine song at a 90s moshpit concert.
First the camera shows one dude standing there and a single bottle (or can) is being picked up off the field- Chris Fowler makes a comment about a fan being stupid- then it was like the pom squad went Russell Crowe in Gladiator and told the student section to "unleash hell".
All the sudden- it looks like an Italian League FIFA event- a literal barrage of projectiles are cascading down into the field.
If there were any Israeli Jews in the crowd, I'm sure their PTSD would have kicked in. But the student section didn't give a fvck..... they were on full tilt.
Sark disconnects his headphone wires and starts walking out in their direction, motioning them wildly to cease fire. It was almost like a hostage negotiation. But the bottles kept coming for a second or 2 more.
Finally, he gets to about the 20 or so yard line and it stops raining-- but you can still hear the audible displeasure in the crowd. Then the staff and cheerleaders and pom pom girls all step out onto the field and start scooping up the literally hundreds of bottles. All the while, Fowler and Herbstriet are a mix of dumbfounded and crowd shaming- while trying to explain that this was REALLY a bad fvcking call.