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- NFL concerned 4 Rams-Saints refs are from California in jaw-dropper. Sunday there is concern around the league that four officials with Southern California ties worked the Saints-Rams game that.
- On Monday, the Tigers he loved so much he almost certainly broke NCAA rules to help will play Clemson for the national championship. Hey, if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.
- Point blank Ohio State Buckeyes out played Clemson & we lost because of the bias refs who most know had a reason 2keep OSU FROM WINNING THIS GAME! Clemson knows damn well that was a bad call & the targeting Enjoy your win Clemson u by all means didn’t earn it, it was handed 2U — Sonya Twin of Tonya (@SonyaMatalon) January 1, 2020.
- Clemson outlasts Ohio State in dramatic Fiesta Bowl, reaches national title game By Joshua Needelman jneedelman@postandcourier.com Here is the full text of referee Kevin Williamson’s answers to.
- A Pac-12 officiating crew will be making the calls in the college football national championship game between LSU and Clemson. Clemson will test reputation of Pac-12 officials - Los.
- That is possibly one of the worst games I have seen called. Clemson won that game simply due to blown calls in all aspects of the game. Swinney Todd and his band of SC thugs won the game but they are about to run into a determined team led by a generational talent.
(, 02:52 AM) cinci4life Wrote: It was so obvious these SEC refs wanted Clemson to face LSU because they knew OSU would give them a run for their money. Now where going to be stuck watching LSU win the game by halftime again. The targeting call was a big joke. Lawrence dropped his head which was the only reason there was any head contact to begin with.
The Fiesta Bowl this season was a real heavyweight fight, pitting the Ohio State Buckeyes against the Clemson Tigers in an epic showdown between two historic college football programs. While the Buckeyes raced out to a 16-0 lead and looked dominant, things changed when the refs started throwing flags for some controversial penalties — which seemed to really upset Ohio State head coach Ryan Day after the contest.
With Clemson, ultimately, prevailing in the game, 29-23, the Fiesta Bowl will be remembered for a few missed opportunities by the Buckeyes — mainly all the red zone visits that led to field goals instead of touchdowns. Unfortunately, the College Football Playoff game will also be remembered for those botched referee calls, which impacted the game in a big way, giving Clemson momentum and even taking points off the board from the Bucks.
While a controversial targeting call in the second quarter was one penalty that fans may question — leading to the ejection of Buckeyes cornerback Shaun Wade — Ohio State really got screwed on a catch-fumble, scoop-and-score that was called back, which would have given them a lead. Here’s the play in question below.
Justyn Ross : 6 catches for 47 yards averaging 7.8 yards per catch (This was originally ruled a catch/fumble but the refs overturned it calling it a incompletion) pic.twitter.com/vxX9XIzeMb
— Lee Harvey (@AyeThatsLee) December 29, 2019
Sure looks like a catch and football move to me, right? Unless you’re a Clemson fan or Ohio State hater, you probably agree, because, by the letter of the law, Clemson wideout Justyn Ross seemed to haul in the pass and try to tuck it away before Buckeyes cornerback Jeff Okudah could strip it. But Fiesta Bowl officials didn’t see it that way, and we now have an explanation as to why the defensive touchdown was overturned.
Here’s what the referee who made the ruling on the field, Ken Williamson, had to say about the play, describing what he saw during the bang-bang play.
Quoted from referee Ken Williamson on two pivotal calls in the Fiesta Bowl. Kudos to pool reporter Mark Faller and the Fiesta Bowl for getting this done. pic.twitter.com/ltCuvcBC5q
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— Pat Forde (@ByPatForde) December 29, 2019
Props to Williamson for even going into this much detail about the Fiesta Bowl call, but, damn, it doesn’t help change the outcome for Ohio State. Still, at least fans get a rare glimpse of honesty from a referee for making such a big call — even if it looked like a catch and fumble to pretty much 80 percent of fans watching.
(H/T 12Up)
If Ohio State loses its College Football Playoff semifinal against Clemson, this crucial overturned call in the third quarter will never be forgotten by Buckeyes fans.
With Ohio State trailing 21-16 after giving up 21 unanswered points to the favored Tigers, the Buckeye defense appeared to come up with a game-changing fumble recovery for a touchdown to take the lead.
Clemson receiver Justyn Ross appeared to catch a pass from Trevor Lawrence and took multiple steps with the ball in full control before Ohio State’s Jeff Okudah stripped the ball away. Ohio State recovered the ball and ran for a touchdown, and the play was ruled a fumble recovery on the field.
After a review, however, officials ruled that the play was an incomplete pass, which wiped six points off the board and allowed Clemson to safely punt the ball away on the next play.
ESPN’s rules expert adamantly argued that the play was obviously an incomplete pass, but fans were baffled that Ross was not ruled to have possession of the ball, given that he made a clean catch and took multiple steps before Okudah knocked the ball away.
According to the NCAA rulebook, this is the definition of a catch:
ARTICLE 3. a. To catch a ball means that a player:
1. Secures firm control with the hand(s) or arm(s) of a live ball in flight before the ball touches the ground, and
2. Touches the ground in bounds with any part of his body, and then
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3. Maintains control of the ball long enough to enable him to perform an act common to the game, i.e., long enough to pitch or hand the ball, advance it, avoid or ward off an opponent
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Did Ross maintain control of the ball long enough to perform an action common to the game? Ohio State fans certainly think so.