We get Hosed by Big 10 Officiating in every big game

is common.  Happens every week.  But this was way worse than normal questionable calls we see every week. 

It cost Michigan the game.  No doubt about it.

The no PI call when Grant Perry was cleary held late in the game was the worst non-call of the game.  The no PI call in OT was also terrible.  The spot on 4th down in OT was wrong.

Bitter about it.

What will happen?  Michigan AD will send in the bad calls and non-calls to the Big Ten office.  And the Big Ten office will do what it always does--nothing.

The game should have been decided on the Barrett stop. From what I saw, he was stopped short.  That was that.  But oh no...refs gave him a favorable spot.  No measurement, no serious attempt to review the play.

College football at this level is a big business.  Someone decided they didn't want to end the game on that play.

...complaining about officiating 15 years ago before it was cool.

Sad to say, the refs will never be held accountable for what people see as a lopsided performance.

All Michigan can do in the future is play as clean and hard as possible so there is nothing for the refs to call.

we live and die by a game that is often decided by arbitrary calls made by guys who are below average at their jobs. we also live on a fucking speck of dust.  

throw a pick six, fumble the ball on the goalling, and throw another INT to a wide open OSU defender.   Speight sucked today so stop crying about the refs.  

""That's a penalty? [The official said], 'Well, it is in basketball.' Well, this isn't basketball. He told me that he officiates basketball. It would have been a technical in basketball."

I mean seriously. They had a basketball ref out there officiating this game. What in all of the world of fucks is a basketball ref doing officiating a football game?

Tell me part of the original post is just mockery of RCMB or some other crap?  We had to beat ourselves, OSU and the Ref's.  Pretty sure the only 2 we should have to worry about are the Refs and OSU.  

2 for 6. Un-fucking-believable.

While it is true that Michigan made some bad mistakes, OSU looked like a corn-studded, mucus-encrusted turd up until the very end. Michigan clearly looked like the superior team today and should have won this game.

Refs aren't impervious to mistakes, but what we saw today was an entirely different level of bad. The fact of the matter is, Michigan played well enough to end up with the situation at the very end (through several other egregious calls nonetheless) and got screwed. They stopped JT Barrett from crossing the 1st-down marker on 4th down in 2nd OT with the lead, and despite doing exactly what they were supposed to do to win the game, they did not win the game. 

This game felt like WWE with helmets and pads. I hate saying that, because it was very real to the kids who went out their and busted their asses for the university and all of its fans, but it is what it is. Disgusting. 

Every game has some bad calls.  Some are gargantually bad; some are game-changing or game-deciding.  But, it's been a while since I saw a crew so swallow their whistles for the home team for an entire game.  That game, that result -- with one of the top defenses in the country -- does hot result in two penalties for six fucking yards.  

And yes, I get home field advantage.  You are going to get some calls on the margin.  But this was all day from the opening whistle.

Great coaching and great athletic perfomrance requires at least competient officiating.  And fair officiating.  If these asshats are too intimidated to do their job in the Shoe, let them officiate on Friday nights, or in the fucking MAC.  

I'm fine wiht Harbaugh calling out the officials.   Accountability starts with truth-telling.

In the law, we would say res ipsa loquitur.

It's in our pedigree. It's everywhere from the Phantom Touchdown to Denny Franklin's broken arm, to FGs called no good, all the way to Trey Burke's Phantom Phoul...

It happens to us a lot. M always has to beat officiating. Which is why we become champions only when we eliminate on-the-field mistakes while carrying a massive chip on our shoulders.

We've got the right guy driving the bus now. You'd have to tear the steering wheel from his cold, dead hands. And the refs will always hate him. The B1G home office will always hate him. And they will always love people like Urban and Dantonio and anyone else who wins that is not us. 

We're not leaving the damn conference. 

Let's accept it and move on.

Steel in the spine.

The Rose Bowl awaits.

We're Michigan.  While we haven't been back until recently, we have literal decades of hatred and bias against us.  It is never going to go away. It is what it is. We will always have to deal with officiating in ways other programs do not.

Yes Speight made some bad plays.  But the Defense stood TALL.  MADE THE BIG STOP ON 4TH DOWN IN DOUBLE OVERTIME.  To have these assclown refs rip that away.  It's shocking.  And nothing we can freaking do about it.  These guys worked too hard to have it taken away by incompetence and/or flat out cheating.  It's a crime.

..who saw Wormley being TACKLED on that 4th down play while making the tackle on JT? If that play is in open space, it's normally a yellow....

Secondly, how about the block in the back on Stribling during Samuel's 3rd down miracle run? Those are OBVIOUS CALLS - I just don't get it..

I understand if the officials don't want to "inject themselves into the game" but then why throw a flag for pass interference or unsportsmanlike on Harbaugh. 

Just seems like they wanted to let the two teams battle and play it out on the field but handcuffed one of them...

my two cents.

p.s. And Harbaugh has every right to complain about it - it's his job to defend his 18-22 year olds.