Virginia Tech football Twitter/interwebs got particularly salty Thursday evening, after officials in their Belk Bowl game against Arkansas awarded the Razorbacks the football after a muffed punt.
Thing is: the officials were right.
Here’s what happened. Arkansas had the ball 4th and short at its own 19. Arkansas punted. Tech’s return man bobbled the catch, and the ball bounced off an Arkansas player. The Arkansas player appeared to fall on it. When he did, the ref closest to the ball blew the play dead.
Except it wasn’t. The ball spurted out from under the Razorback, right into the waiting arms of a Virginia Tech player.