OSU Wins Due To Refs Agains

Submitted by Cali Citrus Man on

When is the rest of the Big 10 going to stand up to this?  What has Warde Manuel done to stop it from happening to Michigan again?

Wisconsin got totally screwed by the refs.  It was the most blatant defensive holding this year. 

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Putt4Birdie

December 3rd, 2017 at 7:35 AM ^

Maybe if a Big Ten team doesn't get in it helps Dicklamey look bad . Fuck him, he has to go. If we keep getting screwed by his meddling and Suckeye knob gobblin',then we'll never have a level playing field. Big Ten not making the playoffs this year doesn't hurt us one bit.

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YoOoBoMoLloRoHo

December 3rd, 2017 at 8:17 AM ^

roughing the passer against Georgia that was similar to Peters concussion but even less? The announcer said "there was an emphasis on this call this year for officials". Apparently the B1G officials missed that memo.

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BlueTimesTwo

December 3rd, 2017 at 8:23 AM ^

Wisconsin may not have scored after the missed PI, but the point is that that kind of PI gets called 100 Times out of 100 against Michigan. That ball was FAR more catchable than the one that got called against us last year against OSU to preserve one of their 4th quarter drives. I have also been told that offensive holding is no longer a thing, and that it never gets called, but it was called on the most critical drive of the game. Wisconsin still may have lost, and they made a number of huge mistakes, but coupling the holding call with the refusal to call PI took them from a decent chance to win to having no chance. It may not be a conspiracy, but it is wildly inconsistent and usually to the detriment of Michigan.

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llandson

December 3rd, 2017 at 8:48 AM ^

It is patently absurd that anyone thinks OSU is more deserving than Alabama. The two arguments I hear are:

1. "OSU had more quality wins." OSU and Alabama each scheduled one good non-conference opponent. OSU was dominated at home against Oklahoma. Alabama whooped FSU, knocked out its stud QB, and essentially forced FSU into a terrible season. And just because Wisconsin played literally nobody all year doesn't make them "better" than LSU and/or Mississippi State.  

2. "OSU won its conference, and Alabama didn't." This, and only ONE YEAR after OSU was gifted entry despite not winning the Big Ten. If the committee cites this argument, I am convinced they have no interest in choosing the best 4 teams, but rather only in doing whatever mental gymnastics necessary to ensure that OSU is in. 

Alabama would beat OSU by 30 on a neutral field with non-Big Ten refs. 

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allintime23

December 3rd, 2017 at 8:51 AM ^

I just looked ahead at the 2019 schedule and it is absolutely brutal. Opening conference play at Wisconsin with Iowa and ND at home. ND is later in the year. And of course we go to PSU and we get TOSU and State at home. What a year to have season tickets.

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treetown

December 3rd, 2017 at 8:53 AM ^

Uniform national standard of referring just got one more little push. 

IF another team gets leap frogged over a conference champ making winning the conference meaningless, then let's just go the whole MBB route and get a larger field with 8 teams. Winning your conference will get you an easier seeding or a game closer to home.

 

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Frieze Memorial

December 3rd, 2017 at 8:56 AM ^

Doesn't this actually *disprove* the idea that Delany has Illuminati-level control over the refs? Because it was definitely in the B1G's interest for Wisconsin to win. That would have been an uncontested entry into the CFP. It just proves that the B1G reffing is bad, consistently and sustainably bad.

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Sharuck

December 3rd, 2017 at 9:18 AM ^

This is a year where only three teams deserve to be in. Cases for and against: BAMA For: They are Bama. Against: zero quality wins. OSU For: two quality wins. Against: two bad losses

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Wolverine 73

December 3rd, 2017 at 9:36 AM ^

which team do you hope to see blown out as the four seed playing Clemson or maybe Oklahoma? I would think the committee would not want to see an OSU-Oklahoma rematch in round one, but do they want to see a Clemson-OSU rematch from last year? Neither of those games was competitive. Since I hate both OSU and Alabama, I don’t care and will root for whichever team is playing the four seed.

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ghostofhoke

December 3rd, 2017 at 9:45 AM ^

When? When you get everyone excited enough about standing up to them. Make several more posts about the refereeing and we might get there. If you find yourself posting about the quality of the refereeing affecting the outcome of games just do us all a favor and shoot yourself

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charblue.

December 3rd, 2017 at 12:07 PM ^

is a problem for the conference, whenever it happens. It challenges the integrity of competition and creates doubt about favorable outcomes for certain schools based on conference preference.

I no longer understand the standards that officials use to make certain calls. And so, I can't even reasonably argue why some calls are made and others aren't. I think that is a problem for the conference, the schools affected and most especially, the players.

No one call costs a team a game unless it's perceived as doing so, and that's in the eye of the beholder.

Last night, two offensive holding calls were flagged, one for both Wisconsin and Ohio State. Both were obvious calls. Ohio State was called for a block in the back on a punt return that was not even considered a week ago in Ann Arbor when the foul seemed even more obvious.

And I have no clue what constitutes PI or defensive holding in the secondary.

But even worse last night, a spot was incorrectly judged that gave Ohio State the ball on the Wisconsin one yard line instead of the three, where the runner clearly stepped out based on replay, and even in the confusion of whether the original call of TD was correct, the spot stood as considered on the field.

That is just another example of competitive indifference that leads to an officiating bias concolusion regardless of the probability in that circumstance of a likely score. It just fuels the debate and so it's a problem.

 

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butuka21

December 3rd, 2017 at 9:58 AM ^

Osu won because Wisconsin’s qb lost the game just like the Michigan game plain and simple. That interception in the first quarter was awful. There were several plays he made that were not good and cost them the game

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