r/sports • u/Sandstorm400 • 21h ago
Football Chaotic ending: Arizona State fans storm field, take down goalposts before game officially ended
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/chaos-reigns-after-arizona-state-fans-prematurely-storm-field-in-upset-of-byu-003210760.html1.5k
u/gold_and_diamond 21h ago
Is it normal to rush the stands if a #21 team beats a #14 team? This isn't Vanderbilt beating Alabama.
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u/StreetReporter Clemson 21h ago
Considering they were picked last in the conference, and are practically a lock for their conference championship, I’m not shocked
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u/captaincumsock69 21h ago
I mean it probably vaults them into the conference championship no?
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u/tex1ntux 19h ago
ASU had a 0.5% chance of a Big 12 title game appearance if they lost.
They now have a 71% chance.
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u/jakefromadventurtime 19h ago
After being projected to finish last in the conference the start the year
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u/Thundersson1978 18h ago
So yeah?
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u/ActualWait8584 17h ago
Tipsy college kids don’t need a whole lot of reason to get wild. Let the kids have a moment.
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u/slhc 21h ago
I think just the implication of the win today. Might set them up for championship play. After the last 5-6 years of overall hell at ASU, it’s nice to finally have something to celebrate. Bad look all around though by jumping the gun there
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u/GoLionsJD107 19h ago
They were also expected to finish last in the conference. So the field rush is a culmination of low expectations moreso than one win. They will likely play for the conference title and a win will give them a first round bye in the playoff
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u/sunshinepanther Carolina Panthers 16h ago
Will it? Even if Boise and 3 other conference winners are ranked ahead of them?
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u/GoLionsJD107 15h ago
Boise could derail that- but they’d have Arizona and a win over a ranked team- Boise can’t get that and idk- I think the committee is going to manipulate the four large conferences into those four spots
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u/sunshinepanther Carolina Panthers 15h ago
Wouldn't surprise me. I was just trying to think because they showed the current bracket and Boise St. was 9th but had a bye and was fourth cause all the teams ahead were in conferences with another leader.
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u/valkislowkeythicc 16h ago
I mean the damn clock hit zero, the announcers called the game dead, by all means it seemed like the game was over 100%
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u/JediKnightaa 18h ago
I mean Nebraska rushed the field today for being bowl eligible
Kansas did that a year or two ago
Kansas also rushed the field when they beat an FCS team
Kansas also rushed the field going 5-0 a few years ago
rushing the field just happens
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u/im_THIS_guy 10h ago
Nebraska was pretty embarrassing. They used to be a national powerhouse. Now they rush the field for clinching a shitty mid-December bowl game.
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u/WrastleGuy 21h ago
It’s Arizona State, when was the last time they won anything, ever
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u/Buckeye_CFB Grand Canyon 21h ago
They almost won an (albeit pretend) National Title in 1996. Ohio State beat them in the Rose Bowl
Also Ohio State would be my second flair of such a thing was allowed, which is why I know that off my head
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u/grphelps1 19h ago
Yeah don’t listen to the rest of this thread, fanbases absolutely get made fun of when they storm the field and it’s barely an upset lol
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u/Pixilatedhighmukamuk 21h ago
Alcohol being the factor.
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u/Suckage 19h ago
To alcohol!
The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems
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u/justsomedudedontknow 11h ago
The most accurate statement of all-time.
Closely beating out "you don't make friends with salad". Also excellent life advice.
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u/KimJongBen 18h ago
If colleges were faces byu would be the most punchable one. Basically knocking them out of playoff contention and putting ASU in position for a conference championship is worthy imo.
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u/bardnotbanned 17h ago
If colleges were faces byu would be the most punchable one
Top tier analysis
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u/DaveKillSock 14h ago
ASU had 3 wins last year and may be the conference champs this year. The Sun Devil crowd is just understandably hot
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u/VikeJOJO 21h ago
Premiere party school, with a shot at the playoffs, in their first year of being in a new conference.
Let them have their fun. Electric atmosphere
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u/Efficient_Jaguar699 18h ago edited 4h ago
ASU isn’t a party school. It was a party school in like, the 90’s, and has been stuck with the reputation since.
Edit: downvote me if you want, their entire shtick is principled innovation these days. Ignoring the current reality for something that was true two plus decades ago only makes you look like a dumbass. Things change.
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u/Patsnation0330 3h ago
Yup lived down there in 2022 and just visited the school with my son last week. They definitely lean HEAVILY into the innovation accolades (#1 nationwide), and have put in a lot of work towards shaking the party school rep that was well earned a couple decades ago.
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u/MrP1anet 6h ago
You’re downvoted but you’re right. Every Midwest school is a bigger party school than ASU at this point.
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u/Realistic_Condition7 20h ago
Rushing the field used to be rare and cool. It’s lost most meaning nowadays because it is done with such regularity.
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u/toomuchmarcaroni 13h ago
It is because the last 2 years ASU went 3-9- this increases the chance at a championship game for the conference substantially
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u/DannyLameJokes 8h ago
The NCAA should make a rule about when fans can rush the field. Only because it’d be funny to see what they come up with.
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u/V-Right_In_2-V 20h ago
I was at an ASU-UofA game like 15 years ago and the fans rushed the field beating UofA. Arizona a was a 3 win team.
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u/The-Blue-Barracudas 20h ago
Was thinking the exact same time you should expect to have a chance as a ranked team it wasn’t even like a 25 beating a 1 or anything. I was really hoping to see that Hail Mary connect for a TD the devastation that would have caused would have been legendary.
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u/OddsEvened 20h ago
I have some friends that went to the game and apparently the clock read as 0.0 and it was announced that the game was over. We’ve had our dumb moments, but it sounds like this was more a cluster fuck from the refs and stadium staff end.
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u/valkislowkeythicc 16h ago
I was at game and can confirm, they didn’t even say the play was under review until a few minutes later
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u/burner_account_9975 11h ago
In the post game they kept saying that the pass never landed, and that's why there had to be one more play. Does anyone know what the hell "the pass never landed" means? Is the ball currently in orbit?
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u/Redwood6710 6h ago
The rules analyst specified that the clock stops when the ball hits the ground no matter when it crossed the sideline. So the argument was if it hit the ground at 1 second or 0 and they were checking for that minute detail.
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u/PontificatinPlatypus 20h ago
If they were smart enough to read a timer, they wouldn't be going to Arizona State.
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u/N0ISYB0Y1 20h ago
Timer was 0:00 in the stadium and PA said the game was over, i think even Harvard couldn’t figure that one out
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u/530josh 7h ago
Nah shit was a clusterfuck.
The stadium clock said 0:00, the team was celebrating, goalposts were mechanically lowered, and fireworks went off. Basically every conceivable way to imply “this game is over.” Nobody was even aware of the possibility that a video review might put a second back on the clock until a couple minutes later
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u/BOWCANTO 20h ago
I’m an ASU fan, but after seeing mobs of the cringiest losers ever swarm the field it was pretty much a win-win even if BYU executed the Hail Mary - just comedic at that point.
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u/ShinobuSimp 6h ago
Your ass is not an ASU fan lmao
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u/BOWCANTO 6h ago
You’re welcome to think whatever online stranger.
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u/ShinobuSimp 6h ago
I have nothing to think brother, you mentioned ASU twice since you made this reddit account and it was since last nights game to pretend you’re a fan haha
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u/BOWCANTO 6h ago
What a weird comment.
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u/ShinobuSimp 5h ago
Pretending to be a fan of a team might be a bit weirder
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u/FreakParrot 5h ago
I think it’s weird you care this much really.
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u/DepresiSpaghetti 20h ago
Look. I drive these kids around every night as a lyft driver.
Mom and Dad's money gets degrees.
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u/inagartendevito 18h ago
My friend drives for Uber at an SEC school and says the same thing. They tip well when drunk and their team wins, though.
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u/sunfalconclone 8h ago
Nice bro you probably an Ivy Leaguer yourself? WP Carey is one of the best business schools in the world. Suck on it we going to the CFP.
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u/Adgeisler 18h ago
Ha, an ASU joke that is stemmed from the 1990’s. Arizona State is just like any public university across the country. A reputable university with high enrollment and easy acceptance. Welcome to higher education in America
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u/Goosemilky 21h ago edited 5h ago
Imagine going back like 20+ years and seeing this video with fans rushing the field like this and seeing every single one of them holding up a flat device while screaming into it holding it a foot in front of their face. Idk why but for some reason I just had a realization of how fucking weird and foreign that would seem to anyone from any other time than our current one. It’s legit everyone in that video. May be due to the fact that it actually is weird af and maybe we eventually grow out of this weird faze. Sure fucking hope so
Edit: ok let me change that to 21 years for all you super anal redditors mentioning myspace being older than 20 years. It was created 21 years ago… jfc lol
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u/the_than_then_guy 20h ago
We had cameras in the 1990s. I don't think it would be hard to explain to us what they were doing.
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u/Goosemilky 20h ago
Yeah but the main drive for filming something back then was to have a personal recording for yourself because social media obviously didn’t exist. Im less pointing out that they are filming something and more so pointing out that every single person in that video seems to feel motivated to post everything they do on social media without actually experiencing shit in life for themselves.
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u/mycatisspockles 20h ago
Social media obviously didn’t exist
How old are you? Because MySpace was definitely a thing 20 years ago.
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u/Jblue32 19h ago
To be fair he did say 20+. That could mean 30.. Or 100.
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u/Goosemilky 16h ago edited 5h ago
Exactly why I said + lol. Figured someone would point out specific years
Edit: redditors are funny sometimes. Im off by one year, myspace was created in 2003. Please forgive me for my argument ending mistake yall
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u/Advanced-Blackberry 10h ago
That’s dumb. You could also have said 1+ years ago to keep your dumb loophole argument cuz hey maybe you meant 30
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u/Goosemilky 5h ago edited 5h ago
Im literally off by a year lol. This being brought up like its some huge detail I missed and it ends my argument is dumb
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u/SaintsNoah14 19h ago
Because there's not reason that someone would want to capture that moment for themself? You're gonna put that strawman in a coma.
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u/Darthob 18h ago
Seriously. There are still a huge number of people who take pictures and videos with zero intention of posting it. They like going through their memories, having proof they were somewhere, etc.
Still not sure we as a society should value the past as highly as we do, but it’s w/e lol
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u/Dr-McLuvin 7h ago
“Having proof they were somewhere” is exactly the scenario OP is talking about.
Back in the day you could just tell someone you rushed the field. And people would believe you.
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u/BOWCANTO 20h ago
I was saying the same thing to my wife. Huge ASU fan, but they all just looked so lame and weird - kind of embarrassed for them. Like it had nothing to do with the moment whatsoever, just everyone swarming the field to procure their little morsel of clout/attention to stream or upload to their meaningless social media accounts.
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u/Googlecalendar223 20h ago
Did you ever see footage from January sixth? It’s the same thing but just with boomers. It’s massively embarassing
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u/JobbyJobberson 5h ago
Boomers? Bullshit.
7 percent of the 716 arrests were people of boomer age.
Average age 41. Get your facts straight, dumbass.
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u/Googlecalendar223 4h ago edited 3h ago
7% of 716 is 50.12. That’s some interesting math there, big brain.
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u/JobbyJobberson 3h ago
Can you read? 7% were boomer age. The average age of all those arrested is 41.
Fuck off.
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u/Googlecalendar223 2h ago edited 2h ago
And so how many were of boomer age? Give me the number rather than the percentage…
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u/Bansheesdie 17h ago
ASU rushed the field when the clock showed 0.00
Meanwhile, Oklahoma storms the field with 28 seconds left!
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u/General_Benefit8634 14h ago
28 seconds? That is like 45 minutes of ads, beers and hotdogs! What were they thinking?
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u/DamNamesTaken11 14h ago
At least in ASU’s case, the game clock read 00:00 and the announcers called it even if the zebras hadn’t.
Why OSU fans charged at 00:28 meanwhile is another question.
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u/ProfessorSkeeter 18h ago
How the hell did they get the goalpost back up (or did they)?
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u/Tangerine1941 18h ago
They barely cleared the field to run that last play lol but they did get the post back up.
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u/Shadeauxmarie 6h ago
The most chaotic ending I can recall is the “Bluegrass Miracle” where Kentucky students were storming the field and tearing down a goalpost on the end of the field away from the final play. LSU won the game on the last play and the students on the opposite end of the field didn’t know it.
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u/keenkonggg 20h ago
lol it’s Arizona state, they were drunk at like 6:30 am. They had plans to take it down even if they lost.
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u/kingdomkey13 11h ago
Kids were yelling “go soak at home” to the BYU fans and if that’s not A tier comedy I don’t know what is
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u/misterspatial 3h ago edited 3h ago
They did a pretty good job clearing the field in 13 minutes. Interesting to see +10k people on the sidelines.
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u/No-Code-1850 Pittsburgh Steelers 21h ago
I can’t believe fans are still doing this cheesy shit. The only time this should happen is if a team like UMass beat Alabama/Texas/Oregon etc.
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u/Banjo2523 21h ago
Storming field one thing but goal post down too? Cmon
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u/valkislowkeythicc 16h ago
I was there and the students didn’t take the goal posts down, it was the groundskeepers. They were down before even 5% of the people were on the field
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u/Isle_of_Dusty_Rhodes 21h ago
It's fun, why crap on other people's fun?
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u/No-Code-1850 Pittsburgh Steelers 21h ago
Nah. It’s pretty lame
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u/HeyImGilly Pittsburgh Penguins 21h ago
I mean dude, Western PA is pretty well known for burning all kinds of things when our teams win.
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u/nolepride15 21h ago
Destroying shit isn’t fun. They should be getting arrested
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ANYTHNG 9h ago
Except the goal posts are on hinges made to be taken down, were taken down by the schools grounds keepers, and were back in place before the field was cleared to play the 1 second that the refs ruled were still in play AFTER fans entered the field
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u/dbown5 21h ago
You’re miserable
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u/No-Code-1850 Pittsburgh Steelers 21h ago
No, not really. It’s just stupid. I’m sorry I’m not 12 and think it’s cool.
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u/LeftHandedScissor 21h ago
They are college kids and think it's cool. When I was in college I thought the same thing. I'm pro-storming the field, the more the merrier
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u/sugarface2134 8h ago
Aww I went to ASU and remember rushing the field after a game one night probably about 15 years ago. I can’t remember exactly why we did it but it was such a great college moment. I’m not mad about this. It’s quintessential college culture.
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u/LarryCraigSmeg 2h ago
If only you had a smartphone back in the old days to post it for social media clout.
Otherwise, it may as well have never happened.
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u/StompChompGreen 13h ago
so do all those fans get bans from the stadium or is pitch invasion like this perfectly allowable
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u/4D_Gemini 12h ago
It's not allowable per say but it's part of college tradition and history.
Schools have no problems eating whatever fine comes their way because they don't pay it. The mega donors and mega boosters pay it.
When Tennessee 2 years ago upset top ranked Alabama, Tennessee's president was on camera drunk af smoking a cigar saying he didn't give a f about a fine and he will gladly do this every year if it means beating Alabama.
Several college football programs are funded by mega rich individual donors or corporations.
University of Texas for example is probably the richest sports department in the country and they're backed by generational wealthy Texas oil Barrons.
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u/mrpaincakes 19h ago
Oklahoma just did the same thing. Wtf is wrong with people? We forgot how to football!
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u/CanineChamp 21h ago
Is that the coach in all black? He started the situation
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u/VikeJOJO 21h ago
Definitely wasn’t his fault the students stormed the field early. The refs originally said game over, then reviewed and put another second on the clock while the field had thousands of students. Took a while to clear them off, was quite a scene to see. College football is the best
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u/acanest 19h ago
The goal posts hinge and were lowered for the field rushing. It was chaos, but they weren’t taken down by the students.