Officiating at the end of the Iowa game

HFCS

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He wasn’t offsides and the sideline call was complete crap. The white hat had publicly announced fumble recovered by the defense. Kids were celebrating with their teammates. That gets called as often as “helping” which is to say never. That was dirty pool.

Exactly, it wasn’t some obvious jump.

It wasn’t even an actual neutral zone infraction and dozens of actual ones had gone uncalled today like they do in every single game.
 

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I do think he was probably in the neutral zone based on where his left hand is, close enough that it's not obvious was wasn't offside.


So show me them, that's what I'm saying. I'm sure a neutral zone infraction gets missed sometimes, I don't think it's "many dozen" or 50 in a game like you think it is.

Next game thread I’ll call it out to you live as they happen. Guessing it’ll be 20 more obvious than that like it has been in every single game I’ve watched in my life.

You think nobody lined up in neutral zone all game then on last play one guy was one millimeter over so they correctly called it?
 

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I’m okay with the Iowa PF because the guy continued to push after he was out of bounds. It didn’t appear that we were lined up offsides… but we won, move on.
 

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Next game thread I’ll call it out to you live as they happen. Guessing it’ll be 20 more obvious than that like it has been in every single game I’ve watched in my life.

You think nobody lined up in neutral zone all game then on last play one guy was one millimeter over so they correctly called it?
I look forward to it. No, I don't think people line up in the neutral zone 20+ times every game, that's silly.
 

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I look forward to it. No, I don't think people line up in the neutral zone 20+ times every game, that's silly.

Not real obvious ones that do get called.

Somebody lines up like our penalty on pretty much every play in every game on both teams.
 

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I don't like the unsportsmanlike penalty on that sideline. Practically put Iowa into FG range with the offsides.

Agree. I thought we were offside at the snap. Seemed so obvious that I didn't celebrate the apparent turnover.

That said, you can't call that sideline nonsense in a rivalry game. We thought there was a change of possession. Of course we had players coming onto the field

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