One thing last nights BCS Championship taught us about college sports...

Watch the video in this link.

http://atlanta.sbnation.com/2011/1/11/1927960/auburn-michael-dyer-wrist-was-down

Listen to what the referee said about the play in one BCS game, "The wrist was down". The play was called back. The runners wrist barely touched the ground.

Continue and watch the other game. The runners wrist is absolutely on the ground. The play WAS NOT called back.

1 Auburn South

2 TCU Texas/OK

3 Oregon West

4 Stanford West

5 Ohio State Midwest

6 Oklahoma Texas/OK

7 Wisconsin Midwest

8 LSU South

9 Boise State West

10 Alabama South

11 Nevada West

12 Arkansas South

13 Oklahoma State Texas/OK

14 Michigan State Midwest

15 Mississippi St South

16 Virginia Tech East

17 Florida State East

18 Missouri Midwest

19 Texas A&M Texas/OK

20 Nebraska Midwest

21 UCF East

22 South Carolina South

23 Maryland East

24 Tulsa Texas/OK

25 NC State East

South - 6 ( 4-2 Bowl games)

Midwest - 5 ( 1-4)

Texas/OK - 5 ( 4-1)

West - 4 ( 3-1)

East - 5 ( 4-1)

If not for the blown call in the Auburn Oregon game the South would be 3-3. Oregon had the momentum prior to the blown call. Oregon had the better chance of winning in overtime.

he wasn't tackled wrote:

This has nothing to do with anything. A player is down when something other than his hands or feet touch the ground. This didn't happen. Why is this hard to understand?

It is hard for people to understand because in the first 100 years of football before instant replay, this play would have always been called a tackle. They may have let a runner go that was spinning around, but never a player that was on his back on top of another player. Since instant replay, there have been many rules or calls that have been changed. I am not saying one way is better or worse just that they are different.