This was a situation where a comparable make-up call was not likely to happen. I really liked how Sark handled that moment, and I will give the officials credit for reversing the call when the fans gave them every reason not to.
Although the fans were breaking the rules, I don't see any other way Texas could have prevented Georgia from starting the next play.
Barron had taken the ball to the 9 yard line, and then you can't really see who got the ball. Three members of the crew spoke quite a bit before announcing the alleged DPI. ABC was not showing us whether or where the ball was being placed after the alleged DPI. I think this is Matt Loeffler pointing at a beer can at the 30 yard line after 12 seconds had run off the clock, and the clock had indeed been running for those 12 seconds until there was a stoppage at 2:48, which leads me to infer that the ball had already been placed at about the 46 yard line (the spot of the "foul") and might have been snapped if it weren't for that meddling beer can.
Some Georgia staffer walked the width the field to grab the beer can, and it seems the clock resumes not long after he stepped off the field of play, because at the 1:55 mark of this video both teams are lined up at the 46 and eight seconds had run off the clock (thanks ABC for taking the clock off the screen during these replays). This is an important moment to me because it sure as fuck doesn't look like the crew had any intention of chatting more about this DPI call. Two members of the crew are over 25 yards apart, by the Pythagorean theorem, and no two officials are standing close enough to one another to talk without having to shout.
At that point a bunch of bottles had already been thrown at the north end zone, which prevented Georgia from snapping the ball again. As that was going on, Loeffler motions to "bring it in."
I am convinced this call would have stood if it hadn't been for the forced delays.
I agree with the $250k fine, and I agree with there being consequences for the people who actually threw bottles and could have hurt someone (old people lose their balance easily and a stadium is a bad place for them to lose their balance), but I don't agree with mass surveillance or doing more than the bare minimum to find out who could be punished.
Instead of Big Brother, we should put 4 of our best detectives on it, in case there are any leads.