Getting harder and harder to watch any college football with the officiating the way it is. Watch the play by Washington, the call was ruled a catch and overturned. Nothing on the replay shows the ball clearly hitting the ground, yet the play was overturned in Stanford's favor. It was one of those plays where whatever was called on the field was going to stand. Even the announcers were prepared as if the call would stand. That's how egregious the overturn was. It would have been 1st and 10 at the Stanford 33 with 1:18 left to go and a timeout, down 31-28 for Washington. Damn shame. Urban Meyer punched his ticket to the national championship after the refs made sure of it with that God awful call and non-reversal by the replay officials. Northwestern would have gone on to win that game had they gotten that first down.
I agree, I saw nothing that showed the ball hit the ground. All you can see in the replay is the ball come in then shadow. Call should have stood, Huskies at best should've kicked the tieing FG and gone to OT.
Neither of those were anywhere close to being as egregious as the win that the Big 12 officials gifted Texas over Iowa St. And then the conference had the balls to say the refs got it right. I called 2 of my Longhorn friends and even they were embarrassed with that "win".
My question on that is why in the hell if after the Iowa State player has the ball running down the field, do you THEN blow your whistle? It was like, oh shit, the wrong team has the ball, I must blow my whistle and call the play dead now. I mean, WTF?
Right. At the very least, it should have been Iowa St.'s ball around their own goal line. Since the whistle didn't blow until the player was running down field, the return after the fumble was what should have been blown dead' even though that was the WRONG call as well.
Yes, at the very least the replay officials have to overturn that call. So the replay officials were 0-3 on game changing crucial calls. What is the replay for? Who are these people controlling this? Can they be manipulated?
