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Can someone explain to me how a hit to the chest is called targeting and confirmed upon review? Every college game commentator says the penalty is specifically a player hitting another player's helmet with the crown of his helmet. I have seen a targeting penalty get reversed upon further review because a player clearly hit the opponent's shoulder instead of his head. Even when the wrong player is ejected the foul was called because of helmet to helmet contact. But what I heard during the Fiesta Bowl was simply using the crown of his helmet to hit DeShone Kizer's ribs made the penalty on Joey Bosa a good call.

 

Of course, the rule itself is stupid. There is no reason to eject a player for using his helmet to hit another player and disqualify him for half of the next game if he does it in the second half. Just give the offense 15 yards and a first down - they already are doing that.

 

Another problem with it is I have seen players get thrown out after reviews show it was incidental contact, not targeting by rule. The purpose of replays is to prevent this from happening. I have also seen some of the wrong guys get tossed - one guy targets and another is ejected for incidental contact. That is ridiculous. How can officials not overturn those penalties or change the number of who gets ejected?

 

In short this is the stupidest rule ever in college football.

Subjective penalty that needs to go away.

Targeting isn't just hitting another player in the head, it's hitting another player with the crown of your helmet. It doesn't matter where they hit the other player.

It was targeting because he lowered his head and led with his helmet. Whether that was intentional or not is debatable, but that's why they review the play to determine whether or not they think there was intent. The refs determined there was, I didn't see the game and only saw the snippet of the play where he ran into the QB so I'm not sure what all went on right before the play, but obviously the refs felt he could have pulled up or at least raised his head so he wasn't striking the QB with the crown of his helmet. It's heads-up football stuff. This isn't a new rule, you just usually don't see players lead with the crown of their helmet like that

It was a pretty obvious call and most targeting calls this year were legit. It's the most common way to gave a serious injury, for once the NCAA got it right.


JW, the only reason you're whining is because it was your team. If it was am opponent you'd say it was a good call

Quote:It was a pretty obvious call and most targeting calls this year were legit. It's the most common way to gave a serious injury, for once the NCAA got it right.


JW, the only reason you're whining is because it was your team. If it was am opponent you'd say it was a good call

 

No I'm not. When a Michigan player was ejected for targeting, I was mad about that. My opinion never had anything to do with who got the flag.

 

The reason I was mad about that one, which was during the game against MSU, is they obviously tossed the wrong player.