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Posted on 09/18/2006 4:29:08 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
NORMAN, Okla. -- The Pacific-10 Conference suspended for one game the officiating crew and the instant replay officials that worked Saturday's Oklahoma-Oregon football game after finding mistakes were made in calls near the end of the contest.
Pac-10 Commissioner Tom Hansen said Monday that a review by conference officials of video of the game revealed that both the instant replay officials and the game officials assigned by the conference made errors in the final minute and 12 seconds of the game.
Oklahoma lost the game 34-33 after Oregon scored two touchdowns near the end of the game.
An onside kick by Oregon after its first late touchdown was touched by a Ducks player before it traveled the required 10 yards, and the Pac-10 ruled that the ball should have been awarded to Oklahoma. The league also said that video revealed that an Oklahoma player actually recovered the ball.
Officials on the field gave the ball to Oregon, and replay officials did not overturn that decision.
During a subsequent play, pass interference was called on Oklahoma, setting up the winning score. The Sooners argued that the ball had been tipped at the line of scrimmage, thereby nullifying the pass interference call.
Replay officials did not see indisputable evidence to overturn the penalty.
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Interesting.
Wow, I'm shocked anything came of it. It's usually just forgotten by the following Sunday, at least by officials.
How could they have missed those calls is what im wondering...
Not that im insinuating anything but could a more deep investigation of these officials be underway?
My sympathy to the losing team.
I'm still not convinced that the rule for touching the ball in the first 10 yds is awarding the ball to the receiving team regardless of who recovers it. Maybe it is in college rules, but I think it's a rekick after a penalty in the pros.
If Oklahoma did in fact recover the fumble before the whistle blew, it's a moot point. Oklahoma ball, no question.
....even punishes the officials that were not even in on the play....need to change the Pac 10 rule about thier officials only at non conference games......it was more so the replay guy then anyone else in my opinion....
With an eye toward the World Cup threads earlier this summer, I'll go ahead and say that instant replay is ghey. It makes the entire sport ghey. It is so ghey that it's spreading . . . first to the NFL, and now college ball. It's gotten to the point where I question the manhood of anyone that promotes it.
Well, how about the fact that Oregon had a better record yet Notre Dame got to play in the Fiesta Bowl last January?
Mistakes will always be made!
USC vs. Ark had SEC officials.
....well I think they all should change that rule.. I'm a Pac 10 fan....Cal Bears...so I'm thinking more the interest of the game....in this case....seems like they were robbed...but only on THAT play...how many other missed calls.?....how many missed calls in every game?....it is too bad but the game is over and should not be reversed. If so, we would have claims on just about every game played.
Cool, FRiend!
Cal Bears...
YOU IDIOT!!! ;)
Cal has a better team than they showed in Tenn. See you at the Coliseum. (thankfully)
The officials for this game and the LSU/Auburn game should all be fired.
Here are the only rules I could find for NCAA football. They're dated 2002 but I'm sure the rules haven't changed concerning free kicks.
http://www.ncaa.org/library/rules/2002/2002_football_rules.pdf
The pertinent section is found on page 79. I would copy but it's a pdf. In summary, receiving teams ball at spot of the foul.
I wouldn't fire them.
But this should illustrate that there is a much much larger problem than just these two games....
This problem has been there for at least 5 years and no one has really done anything to fix it.
The rule is that PAC 10 officials will be used for non-conference PAC-10 home games.
I was surprised to read that the USC-Arkansas game had a SEC officials because I thought the SEC always used neutral conference or the visiting team's conference officials for out of conference games.
With the ACC being so close it's always been really easy to use their crews but that may have changed.
That's clear as mud with all the exceptions that follow, but it does seem to indicate that it would have been Oklahoma's ball if none of the exceptions applied, regardless of whether Oregon recovered the kick or not.
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