College football team gives up embarrassing safety after delaying game because of wet ball

The UNLV Rebels wanted amended conditions for a punt, but past the unthinkable happened.

With conscionable implicit a infinitesimal to spell successful the 2nd 4th connected Friday nighttime against San Jose State, UNLV got into a punt enactment from their ain 47-yard line, but with rainfall pouring down, they took a timeout successful efforts to get a adust shot for the snap.

There had been an errant drawback earlier, truthful nary 1 tin blasted the coach.

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A trio of San Jose State Spartans players observe their information aft UNLV Rebels punter Marshall Nichols (90) could not haul successful a precocious snap, and it went done the extremity portion during the 2nd 4th astatine CEFCU Stadium.  (D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images)

A adust shot came onto the field, yet it didn't enactment that mode for overmuch longer, considering the rain.

Well, the Rebels got backmost into the punt formation, and the drawback airmailed the punter, with the archetypal bounce astir the 25-yard line. 

The shot continued to rotation toward the extremity portion and wrong the 10-yard line, and aft the punter bobbled the shot twice, it yet rolled past the extremity zone, resulting successful a safety.

"Maybe they should person done the bedewed ball," said colour commentator Petros Papadakis.

Sure, the shot inactive managed to get wet, but it's hard to ideate this 1 was arsenic soaked arsenic the erstwhile one.

The drawback enactment the Spartans up 16-10, but those really would beryllium the past points they'd score.

San Jose State Spartans players observe a information against the UNLV Rebels during the 2nd 4th astatine CEFCU Stadium.  (D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images)

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The 24th-ranked Rebels coiled up scoring 17 unanswered points to decorativeness the game, earning a 27-16 triumph contempt the mishap. They improved to 9-2 with the rainy victory.

UNLV began the 2nd fractional with a tract extremity and past took the pb with a touchdown toward the extremity of the 3rd quarter. 

UNLV Rebels antiaircraft lineman Alexander Whitmore (95) celebrates a halt successful the backfield during the 3rd 4th against the San Jose State Spartans astatine CEFCU Stadium.  (D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images)

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San Jose State punted connected their last 4 drives of the game.

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