(01-14-2020 07:25 AM)vandiver49 Wrote: It was an entertaining game in spite of the dubious officiating. The refs are something that the P5 need to get into a room and craft a solution for immediately.
Look the NCAA ratholes tons of money. How difficult would it be for the NCAA to actually spend a dime on football (which they refuse to do because of the OU/UGA ruling) and offer a national officiating crew for the sport by having all of them trained, held to standards, and held to uniform interpretations of the rules.
Part of this PAC crew were those involved in the egregious ruling for which one of their crew was dismissed because they enforced a penalty on the wrong team in the PAC costing that team a score. Another member of that team was the one who threw the Kentucky QB out a bowl game last year when the QB got up from a tackle and brushed the official.
The pecking order for officiating flipped a bit this year.
Last year the SEC had the best crews followed by the Big 10, followed by the Big 12, followed by the ACC and ending with the PAC.
The SEC suffered the loss of a lot of veteran officials at the end of that season.
This year it was the Big 10, followed by the Big 12, followed by the SEC, followed by the ACC, and ending with the PAC.
I would have been perfectly happy with either a Big 10 or Big 12 crew for that game. So why did the NCAA or ESPN give us the consistently worst conference for officiating for the game, and worse pick their most controversially worst team to work it?