The team from Texas gets the win, the team from Oklahoma gets the apology. Funny how that works.
Uh......er........oops!
http://espn.go.com/college-football...ort-apology-oklahoma-state-cowboys-mike-gundy
The Big 12 is disputing a newspaper report that its coordinator of officials "apologized profusely" to Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy following a blown call in Saturday's 41-36 loss to Texas.
"Reports that the Big 12 acknowledged a blown call and issued an apology to Oklahoma State are inaccurate," the Big 12 tweeted on Wednesday.
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A Big 12 spokesman declined further comment on the matter when contacted by ESPN.com.
According to the report in The Oklahoman, Walt Anderson told Gundy that head linesman Brad Edwards signaled a touchdown too soon without a proper view of the ball on the play that put the Longhorns ahead. Texas running back Joe Bergeron fumbled, and the question was whether it happened before he crossed the goal line.
Edwards was on the Texas side of the goal line and sprinted into the pile to signal that Bergeron had scored. Replay officials reviewed the play and confirmed the call, despite Oklahoma State safety Daytawion Lowe reaching into the pile and recovering the fumble.
A Big 12 source told The Oklahoman that the replay decision was correct, however, because there wasn't enough evidence to overturn the play. As Edwards signaled for a touchdown, Lowe argued with umpire Scott Teifer while holding the football. An officiating source told the paper that once the ball gets lost in the pile, clear recovery goes away. To earn possession, Oklahoma State would have had to demonstrate clear recovery.
The loss dropped Oklahoma State to 2-2 and improved Texas to 4-0. The Longhorns are 1-0 in Big 12 play, and Oklahoma State dropped to 0-1.
http://espn.go.com/college-football...ort-apology-oklahoma-state-cowboys-mike-gundy
The Big 12 is disputing a newspaper report that its coordinator of officials "apologized profusely" to Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy following a blown call in Saturday's 41-36 loss to Texas.
"Reports that the Big 12 acknowledged a blown call and issued an apology to Oklahoma State are inaccurate," the Big 12 tweeted on Wednesday.
Big 12 blog
ESPN.com's David Ubben writes about all things involving the Big 12 in the conference blog.
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Blog network: College Football Nation
A Big 12 spokesman declined further comment on the matter when contacted by ESPN.com.
According to the report in The Oklahoman, Walt Anderson told Gundy that head linesman Brad Edwards signaled a touchdown too soon without a proper view of the ball on the play that put the Longhorns ahead. Texas running back Joe Bergeron fumbled, and the question was whether it happened before he crossed the goal line.
Edwards was on the Texas side of the goal line and sprinted into the pile to signal that Bergeron had scored. Replay officials reviewed the play and confirmed the call, despite Oklahoma State safety Daytawion Lowe reaching into the pile and recovering the fumble.
A Big 12 source told The Oklahoman that the replay decision was correct, however, because there wasn't enough evidence to overturn the play. As Edwards signaled for a touchdown, Lowe argued with umpire Scott Teifer while holding the football. An officiating source told the paper that once the ball gets lost in the pile, clear recovery goes away. To earn possession, Oklahoma State would have had to demonstrate clear recovery.
The loss dropped Oklahoma State to 2-2 and improved Texas to 4-0. The Longhorns are 1-0 in Big 12 play, and Oklahoma State dropped to 0-1.
should have stopped them and the refs wouldn't have been a factor.
in the end, its the players that make the outcome of the game, not a ref.
even at OU's debacle up in Oregon during that onside kick. sure the refs screwed up and gave Oregon the ball, but if our defense would have stepped up and stopped them, OU would have won. bad call on the refs, but worse performance by our defense.
in the end, its the players that make the outcome of the game, not a ref.
even at OU's debacle up in Oregon during that onside kick. sure the refs screwed up and gave Oregon the ball, but if our defense would have stepped up and stopped them, OU would have won. bad call on the refs, but worse performance by our defense.
My bad. Thanks for the enlightenment. I really don't know how they lost that game then. I hope they have things fixed. It would be great to see two teams from Oklahoma be consistently ranked and playing for National Championships.
It is because Cale (Mike's brother) played at OU and was the starting QB in the early 90's.
It took almost 30 years but texas finally screwed the other oklahoma team. The 84 OU Texass game was one of the biggest hose jobs ever. Right up there with OU vs Oregon in 06 and OU VS Texas Tech in 05.
The Big 12 says no apology was issued.
Mike Holder says it didnt happen.
A reporter either made stuff up or got screwed over by her "source."
I realize the easy thing to do is blame Texas, but there is no replay that shows definitively whether the ball was out before or after the RB had crossed theGL. The person with the best view ruled it a TD. If it were obviously a fumble on the field the OSU players would have been going nuts over the TD call....they weren't.It was a 50/50 call that went our way. That's football.
OSU played a helluva game. Randall is a beast.
Mike Holder says it didnt happen.
A reporter either made stuff up or got screwed over by her "source."
I realize the easy thing to do is blame Texas, but there is no replay that shows definitively whether the ball was out before or after the RB had crossed theGL. The person with the best view ruled it a TD. If it were obviously a fumble on the field the OSU players would have been going nuts over the TD call....they weren't.It was a 50/50 call that went our way. That's football.
OSU played a helluva game. Randall is a beast.
BigTexOk, I don't plan to get in a pissin' match about the videos, but I've seen two of them. One was taken from the runner's left rear side and clearly shows the ball out before even his head reached the end zone. The other was taken from the runner's left front and also shows the ball out, falling to the ground and lying there a second before the OSU player (the only guy who saw it) dived in, picked it off the ground and then turned around and showed it to the official.
In a scrum like that, I can't completely fault the officials for failing to see all that happened. However, to call it a touchdown was just the easy way out.
Both teams played all out. It was sad that the game had to be decided like this.
In a scrum like that, I can't completely fault the officials for failing to see all that happened. However, to call it a touchdown was just the easy way out.
Both teams played all out. It was sad that the game had to be decided like this.
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