I could dissect all sorts of decisions, but I am focusing on the touchdown taken off the board for no reason. It is all arbitrary and meaningless if a man can just "decide" it doesn't count. If it wasn't this, it would have been something else. Like the one-sided defensive interference calls. Or the no-calls. I get that the game wasn't perfect, but some of you may be underestimating the weight of the officiating's thumb on the scales of the outcome on this one. It was bad, throughout.
I just saw a good point on the topic of forward progress. How was the Purdue TE not stopped with forward progress on that long run, but Jaylen was?
Hindsight has nothing to do with it. It was pure ignorance to watch seconds running off the clock in that situation with three timeouts.
The other day I said you couldn’t explain some of the worst calls we see in football as just incompetence and I stand by that. You simply cannot explain that call with just incompetence. I don’t know what to call it, other than just flaunting the rules.
It's a simple explanation. Referees have the ability to influence a game to their liking and they do it. All the time. It could be a couple of high schools playing in a cow pasture or a college bowl game played on a cow pasture in an "NFL" stadium, refs influence the game all the time.
Normally they hide behind judgement though. Is it PI or no? Is it holding or no? This is different as far as that goes. Yes, ref can have judgement on forward progress like my examples, but you have to call it and blow the damn whistle.
It’s very fair to question, but it’s clearly an intentional strategy, and it might’ve been working before Purdue started faking injuries to slow it down
Was at work for most of the game… was keeping up on YT but never saw which conference the officiating crew came from. My guess would be either ACC or Big 12…
Bogus block in the back call that took away a punt return for a touchdown. Offsetting penalties were called and it led directly to a Pitt touchdown.