Big Ten Officials are Horrific

Submitted by CincyBlue on November 21st, 2020 at 12:56 PM

Last nights PI call and today they have 3 missed/wrong calls in the IU/ OSU game.  They’ve always been bad, they are getting worse.

This conference needs an officials overhaul.  

San Diego Mick

November 21st, 2020 at 1:04 PM ^

With face mask being such a drastic 15 yd penalty only now I wish they'd look up on replay for a quick 5 seconds to determine that the defender just grazed it and not call those types of penalties but Hey that just makes too much sense for that to happen.

True Blue Grit

November 21st, 2020 at 2:09 PM ^

To add insult to injury, those announcers are such OSU slapdicks, I just turned off the sound.  They went on and on about how the forward pass by Penix when his hand got hit by Harrison was actually a fumble.  They kept at it even after the refs upheld the call of an incomplete pass.  OSU so obviously gets favorite treatment from the Big Ten officials it's disgusting.   

NittanyFan

November 21st, 2020 at 1:23 PM ^

Illinois @ Nebraska --- first play of the game, UNL QB McCaffrey (1) when he is beyond the line of scrimmage, (2) throws an incomplete sideways pass that clearly also goes forward by 1-2 yards.

Refs rule it a fumble, no flag was even thrown.  Illinois ball!  And it wasn't even reviewed!

 

gobluedave

November 21st, 2020 at 1:23 PM ^

Yeah maybe someone smarter than me can explain why they cant pay the refs to be full-time employees.  The avg college game has more commercials than NFL games.  And college kids arent making millions.   Except our dipshit coahes.

befuggled

November 21st, 2020 at 2:42 PM ^

They could have the refs doing other things during the rest of the year. Like, I don't know, learning the goddamn rule book.

To be fair, the length of the season is an issue, but at the same time with the amount of money involved in the game both the NCAA (or more likely the individual conferences) and the NFL need to improve their refereeing.

UNCWolverine

November 21st, 2020 at 1:46 PM ^

I'm surprised so many people still haven't seen the side angle replay where the Purdue player clearly pushed off on the defender. Weak call probably, but it happened and it was called.

Secondly I assume you're crying about OSU getting the benefit of a few calls? Because IU had two fumbles in OSU territory that were not called. So if anything OSU is getting screwed at home.

Neg away, just calling it like it is.

sharks

November 21st, 2020 at 1:59 PM ^

This has been a really poorly officiated game this far, but I don't see anyone here mentioning Wade's forced fumble no-call in the 1st and the failure to overturn Penix's fumble before his arm started going forward.  This crew is an equal opportunity mess.

brad

November 21st, 2020 at 2:37 PM ^

Next level stuff happening today.  The refs were not satisfied just missing calls on fumbles, so they escalated to causing fumbles.  It worked!  OSU extended to 28-7 immediately.

Eph97

November 21st, 2020 at 5:16 PM ^

B1G officiating is shit all around. This feeling among many other fan bases that OSU gets all the calls is unfounded. It's natural to feel as if only your team is getting screwed. You read any OSU game thread on an OSU forum and there are around 10 calls the fans insist were blatantly against OSU.