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MAC Title: Buffalo 42, Ball State 24 (final)

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BSU goes for a 4th down, and Davis fumbles again.

This is looking like a BSU team who didn't really see the Bulls as a serious threat. Great effort by UB.
 
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I'm not buying all the refs excuses. Ball State has lost this game by their own hand. The four fumbles were entirely their own fault, and the Bulls have taken advantage of all of them.

35-17, as BSU's defense offered little resistance after their latest fumble.

Great job by the Bulls.
 
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Jake;1348034; said:
I'm not buying all the refs excuses. Ball State has lost this game by their own hand. The four fumbles were entirely their own fault, and the Bulls have taken advantage of all of them.

35-17, as BSU's defense offered little resistance after their latest fumble.

Great job by the Bulls.
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True.

But you can't deny it's a completely different game if the refs get the touchdown call correct.
 
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BB73;1348036; said:
OK, now go for two. Bad strategy, but it gets the over. :tongue2:
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that is bad strategy....I've never understood that philosophy.

You should know if you need 2 touchdowns or a touchdown and field goal. More information should be an advantage. The 2 point conversion is not a given....figure out if you've got those 2 points sonner rather than later.
 
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BB73;1348040; said:
Play clock was at 40, it should have been at 25.
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I noticed that too, but didn't want to continue to bang on the officiating. Did you see the play earlier in the game, where the Ball State returner called for a fair catch, let the ball hit the ground, fielded the ball, and had running room but the official whistled it dead because of the fair catch signal.

As far as I know, fielding a punt that has hit the ground, negates the fair catch signal. Spielman thought it was the wrong call too.

Just a bad officiating night.
 
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billmac91;1348035; said:
True.

But you can't deny it's a completely different game if the refs get the touchdown call correct.
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It's one call, and the replay guys made the same call as the guys on the field. I don't think it's the slam dunk as other seem to think. BSU has fumbled three times since that call, and Buffalo turned those turnovers into 21 points.

Buffalo just put up 7 more as BSU's defense, once again, did nothing to stop them. Ball State lost this game, and Buffalo won it. The refs didn't decide the outcome.
 
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Jake;1348043; said:
It's one call, and the replay guys made the same call as the guys on the field. I don't think it's the slam dunk as other seem to think. BSU has fumbled three times since that call, and Buffalo turned those turnovers into 21 points.

Buffalo just put up 7 more as BSU's defense, once again, did nothing to stop them. Ball State lost this game, and Buffalo won it. The refs didn't decide the outcome.
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That touchdown would have made it a 2 score game. Instead, Buffalo takes the lead. And all momentum shifts. How many fumbles occur if Ball State has a 2 score lead? Are they even in shotgun for the next fumble?

The new rules define that play as a touchdown. He hadn't stepped out of bounds, reached the pylon with his leg, knocked the pylon over with his leg in bounds, and considering where his first foot landed OB, the ball had to have crossed the goalline. Just a terrible call.
 
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