(10-12-2019 08:06 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-12-2019 07:25 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(10-12-2019 03:28 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-12-2019 03:10 PM)ken d Wrote:  With the 12:00 games in the books, it looks like panite has taken a commanding lead. This week, there were only two games where neither team was picked by at least 80% of the field - NC State and Temple - and panite got both of them correct.

The key from here on out will probably be the Baylor - Texas Tech game. If Baylor wins, two of the three closest pursuers currently 1 game behind will be knocked out of contention. That would leave samandrea who needs Houston to beat Cincinnati to earn a tie.

This one could be settled early.

It could turn on Minnesota / Nebraska as well.

If I'm reading it right, panite has at least a tie locked up. All contenders picked Penn State. Panite has 10 wins. He picked Wake Forest, Notre Dame and Minnesota. Lenvillecards has 8 wins and picked Louisville, Notre Dame and Nebraska, while Indytarheel has 8 wins and chose Louisville, USC and Minnesota. So one or the other, but not both, still have a chance to tie.

Texas Tech's failure to seal the deal cost you and Statefan.

Don't know if you saw the end of that game but Statefan and I were hosed by the Big 12 officials in the first possession of overtime on the 2nd snap the Baylor center snapped the ball off of his right hunker and Tech recovered. The camera showed it was a fumble (like a snap on the ground) and the official watching the game said it was a fumble but the Big 12 crew called it a miss snap and penalized Baylor 5 yards. To be a miss snap the ball cant pass through the centers legs and onto the ground, which it obviously did. Then the officials refused to review the call, even though a fumble immediately covered by the opposing team can be reviewed with stoppage of play. It cost Tech the game.

Now I'm not protesting the outcome of this competition, just lamenting how bad officiating is becoming. I've seen some horrendous game altering missed calls this year out of the PAC, Big 12 and ACC officiating crews and more than few missed calls by the SEC crews though they didn't end in a change of possession or a game ending play. This was the worst, and obviously the worst, officiating mistake I've seen this year.

Thinking back to your earlier post lamenting the uneven (to be charitable) officiating in the NC State - Syracuse game, I was going to make the same observation about the entire weekend. This seems to be a problem across all conferences. Which makes me wonder whether the use of instant replay has had the unintended consequence of weakening officiating across the board.

I'm sure it has disrupted the flow of the game, and often interfered with the momentum of drives, giving unfair advantage in many cases to teams that haven't earned it.

Enough already!