Worst Calls Ever -- to Go Against MIchigan
Mine is the Charles White "fumble" TD . . . there are so many that could be listed. This one falls #10 on the ESPN List of Worst Calls Ever in All Sports
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February 26th, 2015 at 9:01 AM ^
Suppose it's just how it goes. Louisville got its share of bad calls that game too. Our bad call just could not have come at a worse time, though.
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February 26th, 2015 at 9:03 AM ^
Burke's block is by far the worst. One call no one remembers due to us winning the game: the offensive pass interference on Uncle Chuck during Wash State's final drive in the 1997 Rose Bowl. It was the most blatant push off I have ever seen.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:21 AM ^
looked around, and then stuffed it back in his pocket. Fortunately, it did not cost Michigan the game.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:34 AM ^
very clutch, thank you!
February 26th, 2015 at 12:05 PM ^
going to explode on that no call. . .
February 26th, 2015 at 12:12 PM ^
Since I'm wrestling guy, I have to pick Ryan Churella getting hosed in the NCAA finals in 2006 against defending Champ Johny Hendricks of MMA fame. Ryan totally won the match. A bullcrap off the mat first TD given to Hendricks had the whole crowd booing and then Churella had Hendricks flat on his back for a full 4 seconds and the Ref wouldn't call the pin. Ended up getting beat 9-8. In 1 match, it had 2 of the worse calls ever killing Churella's dream. Ref should have been banned from the sport.
2001 MSU Clockgate as well. Still peeves me to this day. Has to be in the top 10.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:14 AM ^
In 2002. Replay reviews didn't start until 2005. I was at that ND game, and of course ND stadium was in the stone age with incandescent light bulb scoreboard and absolutely no in-stadium replay whatsoever (based on the ND boards I read and the fervent opposition to Jumbotrons, I assume they're still in the stone age). I'm surprised they didn't have an analog clock and a guy changing the scores by hand.
That phantom TD was at the complete other end of the field from where I was sitting so I had no idea that anything controversial had even happened. After the game, I regrouped with my tailgate friends that had tickets at that end of the field and they were all up-in-arms about it. I've never seen a replay of that play.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:43 AM ^
.. maybe not the worst non-call aginst michigan ever, but the one I remember most for some reason. The ball appeared to be sitting on the turf easily a full foot outside the endzone while Carlyle Holiday's head scored the touchdown.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:09 AM ^
on the 2 pt conversion against Sparty comes to mind and more recent the Trey Burke foul call on what was clearly a block in the National Championship Game.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:15 AM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 9:19 AM ^
The 2010 NCAA regional final against Miami-Ohio we ultimately lost in double OT should have never made it to that point except for the boggling early whistle before we scored in the first OT.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:29 AM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 11:11 AM ^
Awful arena in Ft. Wayne.
csb/ It is also the closest I have ever come to a fight. We are at the one gas station leavng town where we run into some Michigan fans as tired and pissed off as us. These Miami (insert favorite insult here) bros come in talking. Doesn't bother my buddy and I as we are too beat down, but all of a sudden the other Michigan guys are locked up with one and part of the Miami crowd heads for us. Thankfully at the last moment, cooler heads prevailed. Awful night.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:19 AM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 9:24 AM ^
I understand they had the low goal posts then but I've watched this so many times and cannot see how it didn't make it through the uprights.
February 26th, 2015 at 11:09 AM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 3:00 PM ^
That kick was clearly good, but Bo should have centered the ball before that field goal -- lefty kicker from the right hash, tough scenario.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:25 AM ^
#1The second to last play of our NC Rose Bowl was the catch of a bomb to the WSU receiver putting them at around the 35 (I believe). The receiver literally shoved CW out of the way preventing the int. The ref was staring at the play and had the flag in his hand, but something prevented him from throwing it and put WSU in decent position for a final pass into the endzone - at less than hail mary length. To this day I'm fairly sure the quick end to that game (preventing what should have been a final play for WSU) happened because the refs knew their non-call had the chance to effect the outcome of the game.
#2 While everyone remembers ole Spartan Bob's cheating, what people tend not remember is James Hall being held by Sparty's right tackle on the last play. Hall easily would have gotten to Smoker. Some say the refs should keep their flags in their pockets and let the players decide the game, but, remember, it was our holding of Charles Rogers that put the game into question in the first place.
Bad non calls are as bad as bad calls.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
Completely agree. If you choose to not call it, you are deciding the game. It's the player who makes the decision to commit the foul. Nothing in the rule book says a foul is different at different points in the game. That's what also galls me about Nebraska's getting screwed vs. Texas in the BigXII 2009 championship (1 second back on the clock). They would NEVER put a second back on the clock with 12 or 9 minutes to go. But you do it in the last minute? Unreal.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:42 AM ^
Was it James Hall or Larry Stevens? Not that it really matters 14 years later.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:47 AM ^
I thought it was Hall, but things get hazy.
February 26th, 2015 at 1:24 PM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 4:44 PM ^
Shantee Orr
edit: it was Stevens. Orr was in Smoker's face when he let the pass go.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
On the MSU offensive series that led up to Spartan Bob's moment of infamy, wasn't Jeremy LeSeur flagged for a phantom PI or illegal contact on a 4th down around Michigan 30 yard line? That play stands out in my mind but I can't recall if it was a bad call or legit. Game is over if that flag isn't thrown.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:54 AM ^
LeSeur molested Rogers. But... the refs called it when they chose to ignore an equally blatant hold on Stevens (thought it was Hall before) on the last play of the game. We were thoroughly screwed.
February 26th, 2015 at 4:43 PM ^
Shantee Orr
edit: it was Stevens. Orr was in Smoker's face when he let the pass go. Been remembering it wrong for years.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
Three blown calls that favored Louisville in the 2013 Title Game
1. A missed goaltend call on Dieng early in the game
2. A foul being assigned to a different player when the foul was on Hancock and should have been his fourth. Instead he stays in the game and moments later a foul called on McGary while defending Hancock. Its McGary's 4th foul and he has to go to the bench
3. The Trey Burke block
4. The fact that the refs managed to not give the Player of the Fucking Year the benefit of the doubt whatsoever
February 26th, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 12:07 PM ^
that's a hurtful memory. . .
February 26th, 2015 at 9:37 AM ^
pretty sure Amarah Darboh made a catch on the sideline against Rutgers last fall.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:42 AM ^
The fact that an automatic review was never initated
The fact that we had to waste a timeout to get the review
The fact that people rationalized it by saying oh we didn't deserve to win with the way we played defense, but somehow Rutgers deserved to win despite being in line to choke just as they did against Penn State a few weeks early.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:38 AM ^
Late hit in the 06 OSU game??????????????????? Worst call ever!
February 26th, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 9:44 AM ^
The 1973 vote
February 26th, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^
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the second 35 year long payback for Sparty begins this year.
February 27th, 2015 at 4:31 AM ^
The beatdowns will begin this fall.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:59 AM ^
You can watch that replay over and over again and Charles White never comes close to crossing the plane. I think the referee who called it a TD must have been standing at midfield or something or possibly been a massive Trojan homer. Geez. I'm still angry about that call after all these years.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
Burke foul was terrible and more important, but that one was obviously not a fumble.
February 26th, 2015 at 1:20 PM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 10:01 AM ^
Kevin Lynch scores the game winner in OT to beat Miami and send Michigan to the Frozen Four in Detroit, but the ref lost sight of the puck and blew it dead. No goal, Miami wins in 2OT
That team was on fire (having won the CCHA tourney as a 7-seed), beating Bemidji, and then beating* Miami. Playing the Frozen Four in Detroit would've been a home game and we would've had an excellent shot to win it all.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:37 AM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 10:23 PM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 10:12 AM ^
I was there and two awful calls changed the game. The first was a clear pass interference on Roy Roundtree that they initially threw a penalty flag on. For some reason they waived off the flag. Next play, Denard get's hit and fumbles. Then, 4th quarter drive in which Hemmingway has an amazing catch that he was clearly inbounds. Ref calls him out, replay shows he is clearly in (even Iowa fans around us agreed) and yet they don't reverse the call. That was a big game and took them out of big ten contention.
February 27th, 2015 at 4:35 AM ^
I was livid after that game. And now your post reminded me of the refs picking up that pass interefence flag when Roundtree got mauled.
Such an absolute ridiculous call. A few weeks later the refs reversed a Touissant TD went Michigan scored. There was no evidence on replay to overturn the call on the field, but they did anyway.
I was steamed after that game.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:12 AM ^
Granted Ecker should of tossed back to Breaston.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:28 AM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^
They were completely smirking at the refs. I don't think there was any slant to their calls. They were so incompetant though, that they seemed drunk.