“Everybody would just remember me as the guy who took all this money and went to Miami or Tennessee for his last year. But I was a captain. I put my hand and footprints in the cement at Denny Chimes. I would have lost everything that I built at Alabama.” — Ty Simpson
Alabama ends the SEC title game vs. UGA with -3 rushing yards.
That's the first time the Tide has ever finished with negative rushing yards, per Alabama's game notes.
There are actually two issues here:
1. It is a foul for an illegal block in the back.
2. The receiving team player being block is considered “passive” since he is not actively engaged with the kicking team player. That block forces him into the ball. Since he is considered “passive”, he is deemed *not* to have touched the ball. Assuming no one else from the receiving team touched the before the kickers, the ball should belong to the receiving team at the spot of the kicking team recovery.
<sarcasm> I eagerly await the weekly suspension list from the SEC for the Referee overseeing this disaster. <end sarcasm>