I'm gonna piss some people off here, but what else is new
. First, some background: I used to be a big college football fan, but not in recent years. In fact, I didn't watch a game this year, until last night. I'm not a fan of either team, and was't rooting for either, I just wanted the game to be clean, with no controversy, and have the best team win. In my opinion, SC was robbed by a bad call in the fourth quarter. Forget about the fantom knee-down touchdown in the first half. It's likely that Texas would have scored on the next play anyway. I'm talking about the completed pass that was fumbled by the Texas receiver, and recovered by SC. At the time SC was up pretty big (by 12 if I recall correctly, 38-26). The guys in the smoky room reviewed the call and ruled it an incomplete pass. That's BS. I think their attitude was that they didn't want to reverse the call becuase it was a plausibly close call, and anyway, SC was up big at the time. Had that call gone the other way, and it clearly should of, it almost certainly would have ended Texas' chances. Anyway, I thought the purpose of instant replay was to make this kind of call accurately? Unless I'm missing something (which maybe I am like the receiver has to have the ball for more than a specified length of time before it's ruled a reception), the game was tarnished by this call. I realize the game was close and exciting, and I take nothing away from Texas, who played a great game, but a close exciting game, doesn't necessarily make for a great game. Incidentally, I thought SC made more than their share of bone-headed plays, like the inexplicable Bush lateral in the first half, and didn't
deserve to win. What was that? Finally, I'll second guess going for fourth and 2 on the 50 with 2 minutes to play. The SC coach mush have had NO confidence in his defense, which in retrospect, he probably shouldn't have. Flame away!