Oklahoma State: The Morning After

Robbery.

Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force or threat of force or by putting the victim in fear. Typically, the crime involves property but in Austin, Texas, the crime involved a football game.

The Texas Longhorns were robbed of a victory from the Big 12 conference referee crew.

There are different schools of thought on why the game was lost. The naysayers will tell you it was Charlie Strong, or it was the headsets. Others will say it was the fault of Texas punter Michael Dickson. The there is the group that will say referees can’t lose football games.

While the entire blame does not belong to them, they should shoulder most of it.

It started with a questionable call against Texas defensive back John Bonney for pass interference.

Touchdown Oklahoma State a few plays later.

Then, a big interception by Kris Boyd was taken away by a roughing the passer penalty. Apparently just running into the quarterback constitutes roughing.

In the first half, the referees took away a touchdown on a “holding” penalty that the referees pulled out of thin air. There was no holding. But yeah, the Longhorns were about to s ore a Touchdown.

There were so many bad calls I’m certain the folks at Twitter had to double-check their bandwidth settings once more. Twitterverse was blowing up.4

It got really bad at around the four minute mark left in the game. The first “iffy” call was a pass interference called on Kris Boyd but there was some justification for that call even if you weren’t looking through the brightest orange-colored glasses you could find.

Then the defensive holding call on Poona Ford where he appeared to be dragged down by an Oklahoma State lineman.

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At that point, everyone lost it. Charlie Strong on the sidelines, Craig Way on the radio call. And the fans and writers everywhere. At the end of the day there were sixteen penalties tallied for the Texas Longhorns and two touchdowns were taken away by the referees. Some of the calls were justified but many were not. These calls were momentum killers and destroyed the game for the Longhorns.

Will I go as far as corruption as Scorpio Tex suggests. However, it seems to be quite convenient that many big plays and advantageous situations earned by the Longhorns were negated by a referee. I hope Texas complains to the Big 12, which is their right, and the Big 12 needs to handle it properly. This crew deserves to be punished for the robbery that took place at DKR on Saturday afternoon.

Next week is TCU. 1-5 is staring this team in the face and so is the very real possibility of missing a post-season bowl.

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[*]Who didn’t love seeing Utah whip Oregon? It was classic. I’m. seeing a lot of parallels between the current Oregon team and the 2010 Texas team – They lost their playmakers and Mark Helfrich is no Chip Kelly. Chip Kelly just might be back in Eugene next season.

 

[*]Nice try Arizona, I saw that coming a mile away. Josh Rosen is a stud as a true freshman.

 

[*]Mississippi State and Auburn decided to renew the snooze bowl again. Although this wasn’t the riveting 3-2 Auburn victory a few years ago, it was tough to watch.

 

[*]TCU is very beatable. A combined 1,300+ yards were gained in their match up against Texas Tech. But that catch…

 

[*]Texas Tech is very good. Thanksgiving will be an interesting time for the Longhorns. Bowl eligibility will be on the line.

 

[*]I really do think USC and LSU are two of the best teams in college football. LSU did struggle to put away Syracuse but the Orangemen aren’t a bad football team. USC re-established themselves as a Top 15 team and with an easy October, they should be back in the Top 10 in no time.

 

[*]Alabama is not that good. They won by 34 against University of Louisiana-Monroe but I don’t see anything spectacular from them. I expect them to lose to Georgia next week.

 

[*]Remember when ESPN was freaking out that Notre Dame and UMass were so close before halftime? Yeah, that blew up in their face in the second half.

 

[*]Good Ol’ Rocky Top! (Woo!) Rocky Top Choke-ssee! I have never seen a team choke more than Tennessee in September. It’s embarrassing.

 

[*]Toledo: Arkansas State Champs. They beat Arkansas State to take the crown. Good for them?

 

[*]Last but not least. LOL at the Aggies. This was an embarrassing game for Texas A&M. Arkansas isn’t a bad team, they are a terrible team. I still haven’t seen an impressive win yet. Arizona State got whooped by USC so congrats A&M?

 

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