“The Mid-American Conference officiating crew from Saturday afternoon’s Central Michigan at Oklahoma State contest made an error on the final play of regulation”, said Bill Carollo, the coordinator of football officials for the Collegiate Officiating Consortium.
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Pointing to his temple after winning the biggest of points, Stan Wawrinka wore Novak Djokovic down and beat the defending champion 6-7 (1), 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday for his first U.S. Open title and third Grand Slam trophy.
Via the MAC’s press release at 3 p.m. today, Coordinator of Football Officials Bill Carollo justified this move “After a thorough review and evaluation of the entire Central Michigan at Oklahoma State contest, we have chose to suspend the officiating crew for the next two consecutive weeks”. The Seminoles got four first-place votes and MI received one. No. 16 Georgia dropped seven spots after beating FCS Nicholls by two. You need to advise other officials when you have a non-conference game.That didn’t happen and because of that you have 8 game officials suspended you also have 2 replay officials suspended and they can’t work a bowl game this season. The final play took place after Oklahoma State’s foe, Central Michigan, was granted a down that should never have been.
Still, the Chippewas were given an opportunity and made the most of it to earn their first win over a top-25 team in more than 25 years.
Trubisky was 19-for-24 passing for 265 yards and extended his string of attempts without an interception to 139 as the Tar Heels (1-1) improved to 4-0 against the Fighting Illini.
– No. 23 Florida is back in the rankings after slipping out after the opening weekend.
“I’m self-critical because I got 132 guys that busted their butt all week and because me not being strong enough with the rules to say ‘you’re wrong, ‘ my guys lost a game”, Gundy said during his weekly press conference with media on Monday.
In the statement, Gundy said he’s disappointed in himself for calling the play that led to the last-play Hail-Mary lateral touchdown for Central Michigan, but he also lamented the officials’ incorrect decision to extend the game.
SAN DIEGO STATE 45, CALIFORNIA 40, late Saturday (at San Diego) – Donnel Pumphrey had a career night in the Aztecs’ wild win over the Golden Bears.
“It’s a tough one”, Cowboys coach Mike Gundy said. “I needed to help (Rudolph) out with more of a ground game”.
Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said in a text to the AP: “The game is final and errors can only be corrected during the course of the game. We would have never had a play in our playbook that’s going to give them another play”, Gundy said. ASU’s junior running back tied an NCAA record with eight touchdowns – on just 15 touches! Most of the time we get it right.
In a nutshell, the Chippewas were awarded an untimed down at the end of the game after Oklahoma State had run out the clock with an intentional grounding play. I failed to do that, so I think I shortchanged him. 22 Oklahoma State 30-27 in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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The Cowboys have long had defensive issues, which cropped up again in this game.
