Sunday Night CFB Open Thread

bring it up himself. Said it was absolutely blown call. Everyone was properly lined up with two eligible receivers on the right side of the formation and Wheatley the only other potential receiver who could have been eligible on the LOS but he didn't go out on the pattern. He stayed in to block so no one was illegally covered up. Harbaugh said the officials confused Wheatley with the Hammering Panda as he motioned from the backfield across the formation. How you confuse those two is beyond me. But the officials rebuffed Speight when he came into argue the call after the play was over. Moreover, on replay, it looked like Crawford took a step back off the LOS before the snap. That was a huge call because it took four points off the board. Michigan should have scored on that drive because Evans tripped over the five yard line and was headed in for an easy TD and then Isacc was stopped short at the 2 when he was about to head in. That whole series was snakebit.

Whether or not a reciever was eligible should be reviewable -- it's not a judgement call.  Whether or not a given player was downfield might be a judgement call, though.  Replay could have clearly shown that Hill was an eligible receiver, though, if that's really the guy the referees thought had committed a penalty.