We are used to it…stuff like this happens nearly every Big10 game.
And anyway, why should we have to burn a TO or a challenge to ensure the most basic fundamental thing in the game is correctly counted by these chuckleheads? It's like giving a team two outs in a baseball inning.
The sideline did go crazy. Franklin yelled at each official saying it was 3rd down. They all refused and apparently said they checked with replay and it was 4th down. At that point there’s not much a coach can do.
This is what I was looking for. Should never happen, honestly never happens in a AU game. Saban must hate PSU….
The refs stopped play when psu ran the point team out. The refs called the replay both and they confirmed it was fourth down. Throwing a flag or calling a timeout would have been a waste of those resources
Discipline? They will receive bonuses…they did exactly what they were told.
You need some edumacation on B1G officiating. 2014 Ohio State.....they were allowed to kick a field goal three seconds after the play clock hit zero. Plus, a dropped interception was ruled a catch.....upon review they claimed the review system wasn’t functioning so they couldn’t review it.....all the while the stadium big screen was showing the play over and over.
I was there as well. could see that Johnson was in-bounds from about the 97th row.
Did you hear the punt block late in game when Mich was at their own ten yd line?
Me too. And from what I read later, the coaching staff reviewed the play in the locker room after the game and were seething. Wasn't this the game that ultimately resulted in The Big Ten implementing replay? Well, in our case we see how little that helped. As an aside, I defy anybody to name a team that gets screwed by the officials more than Penn State. It's just uncanny.
It was the combination of the two. IIRC, Paterno had a film made up of all the bad calls and sent it to the B2G and the NCAA. The next year, the B2G used replay and it was such a hit within fans the NCAA went national the following year.
Calling a timeout and challenging it would have almost certainly ended with us winning it.
One correction, is that they didn't review the heel/toe catch, which makes it even worse. I've seen that play many other times at every level of FB, every time it was OOB.
Is there such a thing as “challenge” in CFB??!!!
one of the most frustrating things in my online sports experiences was watching some Penn State fans argue that it definitely was a catch by rule
Can't you read? He talked to all of the people who would be involved on the field, and then the field refs talked to the replay official. So the point would be to what .. strenuously object? If their minds were made up to cheat, nothing was going to change that. You've seen many instances of horrific calls being upheld in this conference even after review, this would have been no different. Why on earth do you think it would?
The replay officials already told the refs it was fourth down
Kellerdog, was the lost of down any different then intentional grounding in the same series. You can only have intentional grounding when the QB is under pressure. No one was within 5 yards of Clifford. Bad call, 1 play - forced to kick!
The conspiracy theories are ridiculous. “Their minds were made up to cheat”. No, they screwed up and things were moving too quickly to realize the screw up. People here really think the refs realized it was 3rd down, but wanted to try and screw us intentionally even if they came out of it looking like idiots?
