Referees for the game???

[Jaxbuck]

Missed the 2003 OSU-NC St. game I gather?

Beat me to it.

I beg to differ about the PAC 10 being the worst.

ACC officials are an embarrassment to college football. They delayed numerous games by up to 20 minutes at a time, not because of replay, but because they were standing around trying to decide what the rules were for what had just happened. There were times when they simply didn't know and they negated the play because of their own ignorance. Seriously, they had "do-overs" in Div. I football games.

I've seen better officiating at the Pop Warner level.

What he said. ACC is by far the worst, watch any of their games and you'll see it.

Rivals
Looks like it's an all-star cast from the Big 12

Thank god its not ACC monkey's.

However, lets not forget the screwing we were taking from the B12 officials in the '02 NC game before Porter just simply made the right call in a big spot. They weren't doing us any favors by a long shot.

 

[ScriptOhio]

For what ever reason "all star referees" sound like an oxymoron to me. I'll vote for this well qualified officiating crew (who just happen to have "bowl experience"):

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

...ACC is by far the worst, watch any of their games and you'll see it...

Which is why they are the only BCS conference who will not have a crew working a BCS game.

Rivals

IMHO, the BCS deserves a lot of the criticism they get. But they got 2 things right this year; they got the right teams in the championship game and they left the right conference out of the officiating pool.

 

[IronBuckI]

After watching the Champs Bowl last night, I am convinced that the B12 officials still don't call holding (or offensive pass interference). Hopefully the crew that we have knows that if Vernon is getting undressed on his way to the QB that that is actually illegal.

 

[Best Buckeye]

I bet its the same crew that worked the Illini game.

 

[Jaxbuck]

I bet its the same crew that worked the Illini game.

on a side note related to that I have been converting 2007 games from my DVR to DVD and noticed the B10 crew in question did the Akron game.

At one point the announcers commented on how you "almost never see the ref make that call from back there" and it just struck me. I'd be interested to know if he didn't have some interest in the under on that game. A ref can affect the flow of a game with constant ticky tack penalties a lot more effectively than with one big glaring call imo.

 

[COTiger]

I bet its the same crew that worked the Illini game.

The conferences use a ranking system to rate each official. The BCSCG will have a crew that ranked #1 at their respective position by the Big 12 evaluators.