Archive for the ‘College Football’ Category

If you saw the USC-Cal game last  at the LA Colesium, you no doubt noticed 3 things: Patrick Turner caught a touchdown pass in the second quarter to put USC up 10-3 Replays showed that Turner bobled the catch and the ball it hit the ground, a reviewable play that would have been overturned had it [...]

Even though Pitt was able to successfully complete their improbable upset over an inept West Virginia team and ruin their BCS Championshiop Game bid, anyone who saw it cannot ignore the disturbing way the game’s outcome kept getting extended. With Pitt leading and with the ball with 1:38 to go in the 3rd quarter, running [...]

Any time coaches and ADs in big division 1 conferences start openly questioning the integrity of college football officiating, it’s time to take note. That is because coaches know they’re going to get fined whether they are right or not about the officiating, but they speak out anyway. That’s because they’re right: college football officiating, particularly [...]

The Ohio State Buckeyes helped the Fighting Illinis by playing bad football on Saturday, but they didn’t get much help from the refereeing crew either. The crew refereeing the game made two mistakes, one that cost the Buckeyes 7 points, and one that may have cost them a takeaway. The 4th play from from scrimmage, [...]

Wow…did I read that correctly? Did I just see that the NCAA is forcing the University of Oklahoma to comletely erase the entire 2005 season and essentially pretend that it didn’t happen? Sweet! That is so sweet and I’ll tell you why. It is sweet because if the NCAA, the Big 12 and the University can [...]

With 1:34 remaining and down by 6 points, UW took over at their own 20 yardline. On 3rd down with no timouts, QB Isahiah Stanback completed a 19 yard pass to the USC 15 yard line with 0:03 showing on the clock. Understanding the new NCAA rule that says the game clock should restart the [...]