NCAA championship game to have Big XII officials

[cvsooner]

Hoo boy. That's going to be interesting.

[cvsooner]

The Rose gets an SEC crew; the Sugar, a Pac-12 group.

[SoonerMarkVA]

That's the booby prize for getting shut out of the championship.

[SoonerStormchaser]

Yah...one of the last times the Big XII officials worked the MNC game, they gave us one of the biggest bull**** calls of all time...Ohio State vs. Miami in 2003 with that pathetic "pass interference" call.

If those Acorn Aggies are in this game again, I'm sure the fix will be in for them again...

[BoulderSooner79]

Yah...one of the last times the Big XII officials worked the MNC game, they gave us one of the biggest bull**** calls of all time...Ohio State vs. Miami in 2003 with that pathetic "pass interference" call.



That was one of the greatest calls of all time and sent "the U" into a tailspin from which it has yet to recover.

Might have been a bad call, though.

[8timechamps]

Really surprised to hear this.

I thought the Big XII had some of the worst officiated games this year. Maybe it's a rotating schedule, and the it was time for the Big XII to officiate the title game.

[cvsooner]

Apparently it had to do with 'neutral' officials, so SEC does the Rose, which features ACC/Pac-12, and the Sugar has Big Ten/SEC, so that meant Pac-12 crew.

With no team(s) potentially or otherwise in the champeenship, that left the Big XII to the big game. One argument for four teams and five conferences, I guess...

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/12/15/officiating-assignments-announced-for-college-football-playoff-semifinals-championship/

[ouflak]

Apparently it had to do with 'neutral' officials... ...One argument for four teams and five conferences, I guess...

Well it's a nonsense argument then. You can always go get Conference USA/Mountain West/AAC officials if 'neutrality' is that much of a concern.