At the end of the game, Franklin should have come out and said something like, "You know, there's a lot of talk about the SEC being the top division in college football, with teams like Auburn, Florida, Alabama... But I think we can all agree, as we saw tonight, that we shouldn't forget the role their officials play in making the SEC such a noteworthy conference." And then play innocent when the league hands down a fine. ;)
This also happened during the MSU vs. Miami game today and NOBODY NOTICED. I had to rewind it after they went to commercial and MSU got an entire free down. They ended up having to punt and essentially punted on 5th down. The announcers didn't notice. And yet, somehow, I witness the same mistake but the opposite way on the same gameday. This season has been great and exciting so far. But between the targeting calls and this, the refs need to GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER.
May as well post the clip of PSU getting the 1st down with our DE on 2nd effort and you can clearly see the refs with their whistles after he gained the 1st.
At least it did not cost the team to lose the entire game nor affect the final ranking of the entire College Football programs. The famous Fifth Down game between Colorado and Missouri in 1990 did just that. Refs allowed Colorado to score on the last play of the game which happened to be a mistaken 5th down.
There were 3 or 4 really bad calls, those two .....grounding and not knowing what down it was but the non call for grounding against Auburn and the forward progress call on fourth down against Penn St. I'm a big Penn St fan for many many years but l really hope the Big 10 sends their very best crew to officiate next years game. Please don't send a bunch of homers like the S E C.
It's baffling how something like this can still occur in this day and age of modern football. I find it hard to believe there is not some way that somebody could have corrected this mistake before it was too late.
He was in constant communication with the nearby ref, showed him the replays on the jumbotron. The ref talked with the other refs via mic, and they agreed that it was 4th down. A timeout probably wouldn't have changed anything. Besides, Franklin shouldn't have needed to call a time out for something this obvious
This entire officiating staff needs to be fired! This is inexcusable! If your being paid big money to work 1 day a week you should know the rules! If we sucked this bad we would be fired as soon as the game was over.
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ncaa damn well better hold some accountability. You can't just have refs impacting big games this much
Refs caught sniffing there own white out.
SEC officiating crew cheating to benefit the SEC team...... SHOCKER!!
At the end of the game, Franklin should have come out and said something like, "You know, there's a lot of talk about the SEC being the top division in college football, with teams like Auburn, Florida, Alabama... But I think we can all agree, as we saw tonight, that we shouldn't forget the role their officials play in making the SEC such a noteworthy conference."
And then play innocent when the league hands down a fine. ;)
No. He should have called time out and had a discussion with the official before he punted.
This also happened during the MSU vs. Miami game today and NOBODY NOTICED. I had to rewind it after they went to commercial and MSU got an entire free down. They ended up having to punt and essentially punted on 5th down. The announcers didn't notice. And yet, somehow, I witness the same mistake but the opposite way on the same gameday. This season has been great and exciting so far. But between the targeting calls and this, the refs need to GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER.
Look, all they did was give Penn State’s 4th down to MSU.
I WAS FREAKING THE FUCK OUT!!!!!!
Weren’t those SEC refs doing that game? Or was I mistaken?
They were
Yup, and they're just as bad in conference games. Unless you're bammer. SEC refs are the biggest joke in NCAA and have been since the early 2000s.
May as well post the clip of PSU getting the 1st down with our DE on 2nd effort and you can clearly see the refs with their whistles after he gained the 1st.
At least it did not cost the team to lose the entire game nor affect the final ranking of the entire College Football programs. The famous Fifth Down game between Colorado and Missouri in 1990 did just that. Refs allowed Colorado to score on the last play of the game which happened to be a mistaken 5th down.
Those officials need to be fired!
Refs have been shit in Auburn's favor all night.
Not even the refs can defeat the might Nittany Lions! LOL
Ok then.
There were 3 or 4 really bad calls, those two .....grounding and not knowing what down it was but the non call for grounding against Auburn and the forward progress call on fourth down against Penn St. I'm a big Penn St fan for many many years but l really hope the Big 10 sends their very best crew to officiate next years game. Please don't send a bunch of homers like the S E C.
It's baffling how something like this can still occur in this day and age of modern football. I find it hard to believe there is not some way that somebody could have corrected this mistake before it was too late.
Head Ref's Twitter accounts says "War Dammec Eagle for Life"...just saying
Ok I’m a PSU fan but that’s not the same guy lol. He was tweeting during the game lol
@@magyk5740 lol ok, the officiating was horrible though
these refs n NFL refs need fines or suspensions
WTF? Shades of Nebraska/Colorado game.
FBI needs to look into this. Referees were on the mob playlist.
Are the refs goings on strike ? I mean at least 5 games had a bad amount of Refball in them…
They playing CFL rules I guess
that time off didn't do the refs any good
intentional grounding results in loss of down, no?
Penalties usually replay the down, but grounding you lose that down, not the next down too
Yes, so it went to 2nd down. But they had the marker as 3rd down.
It means you don't replay the down. Not skip a down.
All Franklin had to do was call time out and talked with the official.
He was in constant communication with the nearby ref, showed him the replays on the jumbotron. The ref talked with the other refs via mic, and they agreed that it was 4th down. A timeout probably wouldn't have changed anything. Besides, Franklin shouldn't have needed to call a time out for something this obvious
Terrible officiating
This entire officiating staff needs to be fired! This is inexcusable!
If your being paid big money to work 1 day a week you should know the rules!
If we sucked this bad we would be fired as soon as the game was over.