Indiana +17.5 at Iowa (ov/un 46.5)

[buckeyesin07]

SI.com

I applaud IU for doing this. It's plain as day that the receiver dragged his foot in bounds and had the ball. That the review official overturned the correct call on the field makes it that much worse.

 

[jlb1705]

Indiana has been a half-decent football team this year when they don't have to play that team in the black & white stripes.

 

[BB73]

Matthew Zemek correctly puts heat on the Big Ten replay officials for this game.

CFN

Matt Zemek

1) First, it was the SEC. Then, it was the Pac-10. The Big East had an embarrassing moment Friday night when a clear South Florida touchdown was not only ruled down at the West Virginia 9, but deemed unreviewable. Now, a Big Ten replay reviewer has earned a multi-game suspension after a ridiculously poor display in Iowa City.

The on-field officials weren?t great in this game, but the replay reviewer was far worse. A plainly erroneous failure to award Indiana a first down on a reviewed spot; a failure to award Indiana a touchdown on a play that lacked enough evidence for an overturn; and a general inability to honor the codes and provisions of replay calls (you overturn with substantial evidence, not debatable evidence) drastically affected the outcome of this game. Bill Lynch got hosed earlier in the year when a simultaneous possession ruling wasn?t made by a Big Ten crew against Michigan; today, he and his Hoosiers had to endure even more appallingly atrocious arbitrational activities from the zebras. This is getting tiresome. Just exactly who or what decides who gets to be a replay reviewer? A former referee gets to make relevant interpretations, but a young person with a pair of fresh eyes should be the one determining what happened on the play.

2) You might think this constant talk about officiating is overdone, but then ask yourself: What if you?re a Penn State or Ohio State fan? Yeah, maybe Ohio State beats Iowa on Nov. 14, but this result could very well mean that the Hawkeyes, if they were to finish 11-1, would get an at-large BCS bowl bid instead of the Nittany Lions or Buckeyes. Big money is at stake in college football, and when Penn State or Ohio State is forced to go to the Capital One Bowl and not the Orange Bowl because Iowa finished 11-1 and not 10-2, today?s events in Iowa City will loom awfully large. Won?t they, Jim Delany?

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