Big XII Officiating

[Lobot]

As much as we love to harp on the BIG XII refs and you think we had it bad with weird call and overturns. Today was another episode of that in the UC game but nothing can prepare you for the absolute cluster that happened in Orlando during the the last 2:00 or so of regulation.

In the words of SNL's Stefan character . This ending has everyyyythingg.

I'll try and get this right. We had a UCF fumble overturned because the quarterbacks arm was moving forward. BYU personal foul on the same play and UCF moved from the 45 to 30 and gets a first down. A couple of plays later Scott Frost calls two plays in the huddle, the second of which was a spike to set up the winning kick. QB has brain fart and spikes the ball on second down instead of third. Kicker comes out, After two consecutive timeouts by BYU, the kick is blocked, recovered by the kicker and run forward. His helmet gets ripped off at the end of the play by BYU. Flag. Flag is picked up. Refs decide that the ball goes to BYU on downs. Replay. The kick was on 3rd down. UCF keeps the ball and sends a different kicker in because the kicker's helmet came off so UCF has to sub. Confusion. Replay. UCF was inside the period for a 10 second runoff and the player's helmet came off. UCF has no timeouts. There's :06 on the clock so regulation ends without the "winning" kick ever happening.

Then OT was mostly drama free. UCF wins.

[Lobot]

I thought I was being hyperbolic about this but this is the 3rd week in a row that the conferecne has admitted that the refs screwed up a major play and this doesn't even touch on the misses in our games.

[bearcatlifer]

I still maintain that there should be some creative way for the conferences to do something to compensate a member team for the costly mistakes of the conference's officials. Maybe not money but future preference in scheduling or bowl selection or Something. And the officials should be graded for each game( they likely already are). Then these grades should be made public. Everyone else in all walks of life are held accountable for their job performance.