Team storms field while other team scores the winning TD, a breakdown

Dec 13, 2020 4.0M views 4:30

What Happened

Jomboy breaks down the wild ending of a 2020 Ball State vs. Western Michigan college football game. Ball State kicker Caleb Knight, who had already missed two extra points, drilled a field goal with 32 seconds left to give his team the lead. Western Michigan responded with a chaotic multi-lateral kickoff return featuring roughly 16 changes of possession before crossing the goal line. Officials initially signaled a Western Michigan touchdown, but after review they ruled one of the laterals an illegal forward pass, wiping out the score and handing Ball State the win.

Why This Matters

This is the rare football breakdown on a baseball-focused channel, and Jomboy treats the lateral chaos like a pitch sequence, freezing frames to judge whether one toss crossed the line of scrimmage. The whole outcome hinges on a single forward-pass call, the kind of bang-bang ruling that decides games but rarely gets this much scrutiny. His bit about counting yard-line 'balls' to prove the pass traveled forward is a clean way to show why officials reversed the touchdown. There's also the second flag he flags: Ball State players stormed the field while the play was still live, which could have nullified things in the other direction. It's a reminder that the play isn't over until the whistle, and that premature celebrations can swing a result either way.

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Who / What Is Involved

Players: Caleb Knight.

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if you have not seen the ending of this

ball state western mission game go watch

it somewhere else first in full speed

uncut because what i'm doing is slowing

it down taking a look at what really

went down

pausing and stopping and it deserves to

be watched full speed once it all starts

with the kicker

knight number 34 for ball state walks up

to the spot there's 32 seconds left and

he can be a hero

and he's been a zero previously in this

game he missed the extra point there

he missed the extra point here so he's

sitting on two misses and now he's

standing over

the ball ready to win the game with 30

seconds left and bam splits the uprights

gives ball state the lead everyone

celebrating

you know just must be a a liked guy on

the team because no one cares they're

celebrating like he's rudy or something

like that

now western michigan gotta gotta make a

play and they're starting to get

creative even here this is the play

before the play to number seven he gets

some ground

now they gotta hustle up they gotta

hustle up there's like eight seconds

left they gotta spike it

and then collect themselves all right

now here is the play but first

how crazy is it that they're trying to

tell me that this guy

is 10 years younger than me like this

kid

is in college that's [ __ ] i don't

buy it for one second

so here we go six seconds left number

five the quarterback tosses the number

24.

that's one change of possession tosses

it back that's three changes of passion

back to number five now number five is

going to get

laid out that's not fun for him but

number 24 has it again

he's gonna come up and he's looking he

throws it across to the big man number

61.

his legs tangled up he gives it right

back to the quarterback who just got

decked he gives it to number 83.

we're at eight changes of possession

right here he throws it back to number

three

who gives it back to number five third

time he's touched it he goes back to

number eleven eleven is going to try and

come up the wing puts on the brakes

throws that kid to the ground

goes back to number three again twelve

changes of hands now 14

chains of hands now 15 oh no number five

missed it but look at the hustle

on the big dude number 60 to make sure

that ball stays

loose number three is dejected he thinks

the game's over

and you know who else thinks the game is

over the entire ball state team as they

charge the field and that dude does a

backflip

and now number five has it he gets

decked again and his helmet comes off

and this is crazy because people that

were playing have stopped playing people

that are on the field we're trying to

run off the field everyone's like what's

going on

like number 83 could be tackled really

easily here but he keeps running through

good for him

they're like half ass playing like raps

are gonna blow the whistle this coach

knows that the the play is still going

he runs onto the field to let them know

go go go

go it's like but by you running on the

fields you may stop the play

doesn't matter 16 changes of hands and

number 24 takes it

and they rule this a touchdown they say

good job good job touchdown

and everyone celebrates they're like

what

and western michigan has the lead by

three mayhem

utter mayhem crazy now the ball state

coach goes around

like dude come on like there's got to be

sucked and rushed like

you know what let me go ask my friends

see what they say come here guys

you guys notice anything that is that

legal could it not be legal

you got what's the cause and this guy's

like well you know i think that one pass

back there is kind of [ __ ] anyway

so let's take a look at this pass number

24 is throwing it

and you can see by the science here that

there's four balls

and four balls get you to the

the line and he throws it across field

to number three

and when he catches it per the science

only three balls get you to the line so

that's a forward pass

and the refs all agree on it and that

means that you know ball state wins

western michigan loses now

if that pass wasn't one ball forward per

the science

western michigan would have won the game

the only other flags were for a ball

state team

coming onto the field to play when they

weren't so it's

a real bummer that that pass was a

forward pass because i really

it'd be much more fun if western

michigan won on that play but

we're all kind of blessed in a way just

because it happened and fun sports plays

are fun for everyone enjoy your day

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