The game was strangely officiated for sure. A ton of non-calls, then every once in a while something would randomly be called. Block/charge calls almost always went USC's way. At one point there was a tech on USC (on Trakh, I assume, but I missed who it was on), and after that it seemed like the refs called everything USC's way for a while to make up for it. Surely this reflects my bias, but even allowing for that -- ugh.
With seeming prescience, by the way, a lot of the questions for Tempie at the pregame chalk talk were about refs and how the team deals with how a particular ref group is calling the game.
In the end, our team did great to work with the way the refs were calling things, for the most part, and pulled out a solid win. That's what counts.
With seeming prescience, by the way, a lot of the questions for Tempie at the pregame chalk talk were about refs and how the team deals with how a particular ref group is calling the game.
In the end, our team did great to work with the way the refs were calling things, for the most part, and pulled out a solid win. That's what counts.