The reason is because the team that got the favor lost.... so no need to overturn that..... UA lost and got hose'd, hence the outcry. If the Irish had Tim Tebow we wouldn’t be sitting here talking about 2 calls in their favor, yet 10 calls...all of this coming from a Utah fan...

It was Robert Hughes on the 2 pt play, not James Aldridge.

and yet again we have another east coast writer bashing the Pac-10. you guys always find a way somehow. who cares if the Pac-10 screwed up, we still won.
fight on!

The real reason (in my opinion) is that SEC football fans, being from the football-mad South, would have rioted against the SEC and/or the officials had nothing been done. The Pac-10 fans, being much more laid-back, just don't care as much.
And KSo, Washington did lose to Notre Dame, so the team that got the favor won in that case.

#4, do you struggle in school?

Pac-10 officials are pretty uniformly bad, so this is not particularly a surprise. But yeah, SEC fans seem to have nothing else in their lives besides college football, so I'm not surprised that their outrage was so overblown.

Ok, so they set up a score on a play that should have been called back. Were aided by some questionable calls. Not to mention SC put it in neutral in the 4th. The domers STILL lost. The next few weeks will dictate if they have come as far as people think. My guess is nope.

I swear that the officiating crews in the Notre Dame game were from the Big East...no?

deemed "questionable?" His helmet was pulled off of him. What exactly is the question?

#10 the replay officials were from the big east, field refs were from pac-10.
The difference between the SEC games and this was that the calls weren't in favor for the higher-ranked team. Once the favored team is getting help from the refs, people will call foul play, but if it's the underdog, then no one cares.
People just want the top teams to fall because they hate the top teams. If Arkansas and Georgia got the favorable calls in those games, I doubt the SEC would've suspended those refs.
I saw the game live on tv, and when I saw the side line late hit by Mays I was appalled that the announcers so readily agreed with the call when the replay obviously showed the player was still inbounds.

Before I heard about the Fla-Ark thing, I watched the Charleston Southern @ Gardner-Webb game, and there were two late personal foul penalties against Charleston Southern that I thought were pretty ticky-tack, if not outright bad calls. Gardner-Webb won and was favored, and I think the penalties helped turn the tide. It's FCS, so I know nobody cares, just strange all on the same weekend.

They agreed because we were watching NBC, the Golden DOME network. Mays didn't pull that receivers helmet off either. That dude acted like he got shot because his leg was stuck under neath him and he was bent backwards. That was in no way a bad hit by Mays either time.
How about in the first half when McKnight made a 25 yard run, ran out of bounds, took 3 or 4 steps outta bounds and then a ND guy dove and tackled him after mcknight had almost stopped running completely....FLAG??? Of course not.
How about when Everson Griffin sacks Clauson on a great play after running him down...he flexes his muscles... Flag?? Yes......then Manti Te'o hits our QB late in the game and flexes his muscles in front of the USC sideline...Flag?? Of course not.
The USC game was officiated at least as bad as the Florida game. People say it doesn't matter but it does in voters heads when they see that USC only won by 7 instead of 20. USC has to win big to get to the title game. Just winning is not enough anymore when you are not in the SEC.

Why do PAC-10 refs hate USC?

J, you copied my icon...they hate USC because they are good and like to hit players hard. When bodies go flying they like to defend the sorry kids that got beat up.
Man, it is a disgrace. I will be at the game on Saturday at the Coliseum. We better kick the Beavers all over the field and get our revenge on those bums.

What's the problem with refs being taken to task for crappy calls?

Big XII and SEC refs MAKE sure their top dogs WIN
Pac 10 officials do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to have their teams LOSE non-conf games... lest you forget the Udub- BYU game last year
even the refs have east coast bias

the officiating was pretty bad, even though they should have won by 20, just glad that they won the game and the domers are still crying and still think they can play with the big boys. i also believe the BCS is trying hard not to let SC in on the big dance. somehow they are pulling for an SEC to win another NC in turn we will never see the game everybody wants.

Its common knowledge that you can't touch a ND player anywhere near the sideline during a game in Notre Dame stadium. Glad to see they addressed that bogus penalty for Mays' hit on Allen near the sideline. He was still running up the sideline when Mays hit him. He wasn't ducking out of bounds.

It's interesting that the fact that the Trojans were (Kevin Donaghy) 10-point favorites is not mentioned in the article.
I guess the real winners (Kevin Donaghy) were those who bet on the Irish to cover.
But we all know that officials don't bet on games, right?

oops, Tim Donaghy

these comments did not come from the pac 10 conference, but from long time participants in the business of providing coverups for dishonest officials, dave cutaia, the current pac 10 conference coordinator of football officiating and his boss and predecessor in that pac 10 conference position,jim muldoon, now the associate pac 10 conference commissoner for football operations and publicity
dave cutaia got his promotion from the position of pac 10 head of game officiating crews from former pac 10 commissioner tom hansen right after an all pac 10 officiating crew headed by cutaia and an all pac 10 ten review crew stole a win over oregon from oklahoma with a coordination of dishonest calls and non calls by the crews headed by cutaia, very much like the coordinated dishonest calls by all pac 10 game officials which permitted usc to steal wins from notre dame over usc in 2005 and 2009.
the officiating at that 2006 oregon/oklahoma game was so blatantly dishonest that commissioner hansen and then coordinator of football officiating were forced to admit that the officiating conduct was dishonest and had altered the game outcome in oregon's favor. both hansen and muldoon swore publicly that they would punish severely every pac 10 official involved in that game.
their punishment for cutaia was to promote cutaia to muldoon's former position at the pac 10 conference.
unfortuinately, oklahoma did not pursue its civil remedies in the courts to force the phony game outcome to be reversed to show zero points scored by oregon, the boosters who paid off the officialsincluding cutaia , did deliver a win on paper to oregon.
to this day, no big 12 team will schedule any game in which pac 10 officials have any role whatsoever.
cutaia certainly does know what dishonest officiating and payoffs are all about since, in the eyes of hansen and muldoon, cutaia had earned a big promotion, which they both delivered to cutaia.
cutaia's comments were in response to numerous game film clips of many acts of dishonest officiating by this pac 10 crew by charlie weis of notre dame requesting explanations with references to specific officiating rules.
cutaia's normal responses to such requests which pour into him after virtually every game in which pac 10 ref or tech review crews participate are to ignore them completely or simply reply screw you.
the substitution rule to which cutaia refs simply does not exist and his press release is an attempt to draw attention away from the fact that this pac 10 officiating crew was bought and paid for to make sufficient dishonest calls and other acts of officiating misconduct to steal a win for usc, with large bonuses if they delivered a blowout win which they failed to deliver.
we hope that the pac 10 ref crew and cutaia and muldoon got very large payoffs in the notre dame and other games over the past several years since we will be relieving them of all of their material possessions in very public jury trials very shortly.
as for the pac 10 conference as an entity, new and honest pac 10 commissioner larry scott has a big mess to clean up, including terminating cutaia and muldoon and every single pac 1o game and tech review official in mid season.
we suggest that hansen, cutaia, muldoon, their counterparts at every other conference, and every official read the ncaa officiating rules very carefully and officiate every game honestly.
if that does not happen, we will take all of their material possesions in the civil courts as well in very public jury trials.
we undertstand that the ncaa and the conferences and officials and the coaches and schools that make the payoffs may still be operating under the assumption that they can rely on certain obscure federal laws to keep the public from accessing their records,
fortunately, we broke down those barriers in our disclosure action in the civil courts against the ncaa.
on 10/15/2009, after spending millions in attorneys fees at trial and on appeal, the ncaa threw in the towel and coughed up every single document realting to the ncaa investigation of florida state for academic misconduct.
in fact, anyone who wants to see a real classic inn dishonest officiating need only dial up espn 360 on the internet and watch the florida state, north carolina game which was played on thursday night.
there, dishonest acc game officials were paid by associates of butch davis, formerly and notoriously the head coach at miami, and now the head coach at north carolina to deliver a win to davis and north carolina.
well , in that game, florida state beat both both north carolina and dishonest acc game and tech review crews.
in that game, the tv feed and replays are clear as a bell for anyone who has read the ncaa college football officiating rules carefully.
the days of dealmaking behind closed doors and secrecy are over.
now, it is just a question of which officials choose to commit premediated economic suicide and which do not.
no, suspending the game crew at the arkansas/ florida game will not keep the sec conference or those who run the football officiating con operation in the sec conference or the game officials. the outcome of that game has to be reversed and every individual in the sec conference participating in or providing cover for any dishonest official will have to pay substantial damages in the civil courts, along with the conference as an entity.
in the case of the arkansas/florida game, it is quite possible that no payoffs were made to the game officials, but that the game officials, who are employed by the conferences,were seeking to protect the sec's chances of securing 2 spots in bcs games with big payoffs with the winner of the florida/alabama game going to the bcs title game and the one loss loser going to a second bcs bowl game, with another big payooff for the sec conference and its employees.
when it comes down to the alabama. florida matchup, watch for alabama boosters to buy the sec officials and a win over florida unless the point spreads become of interest to the sports bookies, who can and have, in the past,outbid any team boosters.
this saturday, look for a bidding war between oregon and usc for the serices of another dishonest pac 10 ref crew in the wasshington/oregon game at washington.

It's gonna take a lot more than those kinda tricks to save Fat Charlie Frontbutt's ample bacon.