The No. 17 Hokies fell to No. 13 Michigan, 23-20, in overtime at the 2012 Sugar Bowl after Wolverines place kicker Brendan Gibbons nailed a 37-yard field goal.
"They had called it a touchdown on the field so I thought it would’ve been hard to overturn," Coale said of the play. "But they saw some things and overturned it and it was in the ref’s hands. What can you do?"
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"Football is a game of inches and Danny Coale was inches away from that definitely being a touchdown, even though the whole Hokie nation might’ve thought it was a touchdown."