East Texas A&M at Houston Christian. Link to ESPN+ broadcast is in reply 3.
I suppose I’m always inclined to try and make the officials right. Don’t really want to see 8 officials and a replay official get a rule just wrong. Particularly when it’s such a huge swing from TD to 1/G at the 2 to the other teams ball.
As a thought exercise if you change the goal line in the AR to the line to gain then you’d return to the spot of the fumble. I suppose the goal line changes everything is a good reminder in these cases.
From the replay perspective, the booth doesn't make decisions or rulings outside of plays they can get involved in. While they can review the fumble (whether he was down, spot, etc.) and the recovery (in EZ or not, and who possessed it), they can "provide information" to the crew via O2O, but the ultimate decision of which rule applies and the end result rests with the whitehat and the other onfield officials.
I would hope that the booth personnel were aware of the correct ruling and what the outcome should have been, and gave the crew their opinion, but were just overruled by the whitehat.
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