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Not what we saw: Texas shouldn't have gotten a 'second' chance Here's exactly what happened: There were 24 incomplete passes in the Texas-Nebraska game. On every one of them — every single one (I know, I went back and checked in slow motion) — the game clock ticked off that second, and sometimes another. That's how it always works in this and every other game: There's a bit of a human element (the eye sending the message to the brain, the brain relaying it to the finger on the clock button, the electronic impulses prompting the clock to stop). And so, when Colt McCoy inexplicably decided to run a play with six seconds remaining instead of calling timeout or, well, showing any sense of urgency, he rolled out and threw the ball away, way out of bounds, as the clock ticked down to 0:00. http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/10481260/Texas-shouldn't-have-gotten-a-'second'-chance . .

The coach didn’t ask for a review on those other calls because those individual seconds don’t matter when there’s 13 minutes left in the game.
I’ve heard every complaint in the book from Nebraska fans. They were complaining because on the pass interference call the full fifteen yards was assessed instead of half the distance. In the NCAA rule book, the full fifteen yards is assessed unless the penalty would advance the ball inside the two. In that case, it’s put at the two. In this case it was put at the four, so correct call. That rule is unique to pass interference in the end zone. In other penalties, it’s half the distance to the goal if the distance to the goal is less than twice the distance of the penalty.
In the case of the ball going out of bounds, the time of the end of the play is a reviewable call. Brown asked for a review, got it, and it showed the ball contacting something other than a referee or player. By rule, it is a dead ball at that time, and if there is time on the clock when there is a review, it is put back on the clock. Whether it’s a tenth of a second or five seconds left. If there’s any time left on the clock another play is run.
Another site was complaining that the referees didn’t call holding on Texas enough. Nebraska lost. That’s what happened.

My son and I had a similar conversation earlier today. He thinks it was the right call and I think it is bunk.

The reason is much the same as you mentioned; In the 4th quarter there were plenty of instances where they could have went back and reviewed the tape to see the EXACT second that the clock was stopped.

I don’t like this idea that it is only in the waning seconds of a game that the every minutial (is that a word) of the game is reviewed but 8 or 10 minutes earlier the game is run by a “close enough” methodology (think of ball placement after a tackle).

Let the refs call the game.

Deep breaths ... deep breaths ....