Colt McCoy and OU's Punter in a Flop-off

Yes Texas got a bit more help from the officials and it was a terrible officated game.  But give it to Texas, they wanted it and they took it.  Congrats to Texas.   Now let’s see how we can salvage the year.

Boomer Sooner!

"Watch it, I’m a’ sick an Okie on ya…"

I’ve seen better officiating crews for high school games.  Way too many errors in calls and replay decisions…..absolute joke…..was this a PAC 10 crew?

This was the best officiating crew the Big 12 could field for a game of this magnitude? 

OU’s first score didn’t come under review (which he was clearly not in the end zone and the knee down) so you knew the officiating and booth was a joke with 3 plus quarters to go.

Props to Texas for capitalizing on Stoops mishaps and stepping up when it mattered.

OU hasn’t proven anything since beating Missouri in the Big 12 title game.  I’d say they have pretty much blown an opportunity for the NC game with today’s loss.  

Was Ed Hochuli and his crew officiating this game? Aweful, aweful, job. In my opinion, it was fairly evenly called on both sides when you add up the missed calls and wrong calls made. Bottom line, Texas offense was better than Oklahoma’s secondary and linebackers.  Texas wore the pants off the Sooner linebackers in the middle of the field the entire 2nd half.

Refs were aweful, but the game was still won by the players in the end.

Herbie’s comment about handing out yellow cards instead of flags was priceless.  McCoy and Knall should be ashamed, along with the zebras.

I’m not sure OU didn’t score on the first drive. But the flop was a flop and it more or less equates Colt’s INT (3 points) and personal fouls (times two) that kept drives going. Ultimately it was a classic, and Texas deserved the win: congratulations to UT. I’d  call it Mack’s second-best win of his career (USC is best).

By rule. That apparent INT thrown in the endzone by McCoy was INFACT AN INCOMPLETION.

He didnt maintain possession after hitting the ground.

GREAT CALL BY THE OFFICIALS (One of the very few they made all day)

From the 2008 NCAA Rules and Interpretations Book, Rule 2, Section 2, Article 7c, Definition 2: Loss of ball simultaneous to returning to the ground is not a catch, interception or recovery.

So lets review.

Oklahoma benefited two touchdowns VIA horrid calls (Opening drive that did not break the plane, & the flop running into the kicker that again turned into another touchdown)

Texas? Zero points gained by horrid calls.

48 yards rushing. Every Texas scoring drive other than the late run was kept alive by penalties. 97 yard kick-off return for a touchdown.Special TeamsPenaltiesTurnoversIn a game of that magnitude, those are the three major deciding factors, and Oklahoma faltered in all three. That is coaching, and that’s where OU lost that game.

Drives were not "kept alive" by penalties. The penalties moved the ball further down the field. But bad calls did not move the ball on 3rd down.

On the other hand. Oklahoma scored 14 pts due to Horrid calls.