The penalty should have ended the game, but the officials awarded Central Michigan an offensively play, leading to the game-winning, Hail Mary-lateral touchdown.
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Top 25 college football rankings heading into Week 3 of the season have Florida State moving up, Clemson and Georgia dropping down, and Arkansas and Florida moving in.
Alabama maintained its hold on the top spot, receiving 56 of 61 first-place nods.
One of the oddest endings imaginable left Oklahoma State stunned and Central Michigan celebrating. UM also has one first-place vote. Oklahoma State was up 27-24 with four seconds to go and just needed to run the clock down. Georgia dropped seven rungs from No. 9 to No. 16 after holding off FCS opponent Nicholls State by two points.
The eight-man officiating crew that botched the end of the Central Michigan-Oklahoma State game has been suspended for two games, the Mid-American Conference announced Sunday.
“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”, Bill Carollo, national coordinator of college football officials, said in statement released by the MAC.
Central Michigan defensive lineman Joe Ostman (45) stops Oklahoma State running back Chris Carson (32) just short of the goal line during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016. They won’t be top 10 after this win with Texas and Wisconsin along with Louisville having an easy time in their games against slightly stronger foes, although none of them faced anyone too formidable.
No. 23 Florida is back in the rankings after slipping out after the opening weekend. Week three is loaded again. Alabama (Last week 1) 2. The Rebels have beat the Crimson Tide two years in a row.
Stock up: Louisville. The Cardinals continued on their upward trajectory after QB Lamar Jackson’s virtuoso performance Friday night at Syracuse.
“After thorough review and examination of the entire Central Michigan at Oklahoma State contest, we have chose to suspend the officiating crew for the next two consecutive weeks”.
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NO. 25 MIAMI 38, FLORIDA ATLANTIC 10 – At Miami Gardens, Fla., Mark Walton ran for 155 yards and four touchdowns, and Miami shook off a slow start to beat Florida Atlantic.
