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Cory Woodroof

Stanford’s meaningless field goal as time expired cashed the over and had bettors in shambles

Stanford may or may not have had certain bettors in mind on a strange last-second field goal in its loss to California.

Down 27-17 with five seconds to go, Cardinal head coach David Shaw opted to trot out kicker Joshua Karty for a 61-yard field goal. Karty nailed the kick, the longest in Stanford history.

However, it amounted to largely nothing other than adding a really cool kick to Karty’s highlight video and pushing the total point spread of 46.5 to the over for the afternoon.

If you bet the under for the game, it was the kick of doom.

 

According to Action Network, 62 percent of the bets on the over/under and 67 percent of the money wagered backed the under 46.5.

Stanford’s inexplicable field goal was the kind of bad beat that bettors can’t prepare for in a game where a team is down by 10 points with five seconds to go.

It’s as brutal a last-second swing as you’ll see.

Naturally, the bizarre field goal got folks talking on Twitter.

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