11-10-2019, 07:04 PM
Wow. The P12 officials at the WSU-Cal game applied a penalty to the wrong team in the 3rd quarter. Might have made a difference along the way. WSU did end up making a FG at the end of the drive, but it might have been a TD if they had only needed 35 yards to score.
https://pac-12.com/article/2019/11/10/pa...ornia-game
https://pac-12.com/article/2019/11/10/pa...ornia-game
Quote:With 10:14 remaining in the third quarter, Washington State received the kick off and returned it to the 50-yard line. The Referee threw a flag on the play for a hands to the face penalty. After a crew discussion, the foul was announced by the Referee as “hands to the face on the receiving team number 15” and Washington State was penalized half the distance to the goal from the spot of the foul and the ball was placed at its own 8-yard line.
After the next play was run, the Referee informed Washington State that there was an error in application of the penalty. The penalty was on the kicking team number 15, not the receiving team, and the penalty should have been assessed on California at the end of the play with the ball spotted at California’s 35-yard line.
"We have an unwritten rule around here not to do anything stupid."
-Casey Jacobsen, Feb 3, 2000
