That guy definately tipped the ball over the 10 yard mark. Shoulda been OU ball.Regardless, they should have done a better job protecting on that last FG.
OU player touched it, Oregon Ball.If Oklahoma really deserved to win they would have stopped Oregon's drive, or made their FG.
I saw a lot of great endings yesterday. It was sweet. First I watch LSU/Auburn ending. Flip over to ABC to watch the final 10 or so minutes of OU/Oregon. Then later in the night watch FSU/CLEM, and then watch the final quarter of Army/A&M. I think there was one more game, but I can't remember it.
The ball clearly hits the Oregon player charging in on the shoulder pad at the 44 yard line.Funny thing is Oregon never even recovered the ball. It was between #9 on OU's legs and then #23 grabbed the ball. The refs weren't even paying attention to where the ball was but was instead paying attention to the pile. If #23, ran up to the refs to tell them that he had the ball, OU probably would have had the ball. But it's not the player's role to show who has possession. Even if they had watched the instant replay, they would have seen the ball was in between #9s legs and then 23 just picked it up.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMX_17icIHg...related&search=The fact that all the officials were Pac-10 officials makes the officiating shady.http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2593564Confirms that the officials messed up. Oregon player touched ball before it travelled 10 yards and OU actually recovered the ball.LSU kinda got screwed with referee issues too. How do officials determine uncatchable balls? Receivers can make some of the most amazing catches on throws that I would have thought were "uncatchable."
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (chang @ Sep 18 2006, 02:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The ball clearly hits the Oregon player charging in on the shoulder pad at the 44 yard line.Funny thing is Oregon never even recovered the ball. It was between #9 on OU's legs and then #23 grabbed the ball. The refs weren't even paying attention to where the ball was but was instead paying attention to the pile. If #23, ran up to the refs to tell them that he had the ball, OU probably would have had the ball. But it's not the player's role to show who has possession. Even if they had watched the instant replay, they would have seen the ball was in between #9s legs and then 23 just picked it up.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMX_17icIHg...related&search=The fact that all the officials were Pac-10 officials makes the officiating shady.http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2593564Confirms that the officials messed up. Oregon player touched ball before it travelled 10 yards and OU actually recovered the ball.LSU kinda got screwed with referee issues too. How do officials determine uncatchable balls? Receivers can make some of the most amazing catches on throws that I would have thought were "uncatchable."</div>I'll be the first to admit that I didnt watch the ending of the game as I flipped channels with about 5 minutes left when Oklahoma did what I thought was put the game away, so I was shocked to found out that they lost, but its even weaker if it was because of poor officiating.
