Week 4 College Football Thread

It may be stupid, indeed, but kind of funny.

 

I watched to Wicked. Whether Patrick was killing time or the dumbass producer told him in his earpiece to toss Blackledge a bone. Todd wasn't going to bite on that. Thankfully, Stafford threw that GW pass to Henderson.

 

While I resent that remark, the Falcons ran the ball SIX times in the first half. Six. They ran 27 times for the game, only because they took mercy on the faithful and ran the clock out late.

Urban Meyer, Gregg Brandon is not.

 

I can't believe more hasn't been made of the massive fuck-up by the officials on that fumble into the end zone in the Wisky-Iowa game.

There was no inadvertent whistle. A Iowa player get a hand on the ball and the official blew his whistle and began to signal Iowa ball. As the whistle was blown, the ball was knocked loose and a Wisconsin player wound up with it in the ensuing scrum.

Now, an argument could be made that the official should not have blown his whistle initially, but the fact is he did. And he did so because, in his eyes, Iowa recovered the ball. Whether it's the correct call is up to debate but under instant replay rules the play is over once the whistle is blown and what takes place after that cannot be reviewed. Therefore it should have been Iowa ball at the 20 instead of Wisconsin ball at the three.

Instead the officials manufactured a do-over for the Badgers. Methinks Iowa will be getting a letter of apology from Jim Delany this week.

 

Armchair, my contention with that play is how can that be an inadverent whistle when the side judge "blew" the play dead and called it Iowa's ball?