Virginia Tech robbed of major upset of Miami after questionable overturned touchdown

After leading for a majority of the game Friday night at Miami, the Virginia Tech football team fell behind the No. 7 Miami Hurricanes, 38-34, with 1:57 left. With two timeouts and an offense that had played its best game to date, there was plenty of time for the Hokies to go 75 yards.

They did not have the best clock management on the drive, but were at the Miami 38-yard line with three seconds left and one play remaining. Quarterback Kyron Drones dropped back and lofted a pass to the end zone where Virginia Tech wide receivers Da'Quan Felton, and Jaylin Lane and running back Bhayshul Tuten went up for it with a trio of Miami defenders. The ruling on the field was a catch and a touchdown for a 40-38 Hokies win. Or so we thought.

The referees went to video review and with no clear-cut angles or video to prove that the call should be overturned, they overturned the call. It was a game with questionable calls and that was icing on the cake. As rules expert Matt Austin said on the ESPN broadcast, there was no video evidence to overturn the call, but they did.

Look, video replay is in the game for a reason, however, the rules are clearly stated and if there is no indisputable video evidence, the call on the field should stand. I'd love to see what the video evidence they found to overturn the call.

Felton appeared to go up and come down with the ball and land on his backside in bounds in the end zone, which is a touchdown. You can slow down the replay, you can look at different angles, and you can break it down frame-by-frame, but there is no video evidence to overturn the call. Virginia Tech had victory stolen from them after changing a call on the field of a touchdown with no indisputable video evidence.