Iowa-Wisconsin - IW

[JugglingReferee]

The Canadian Ruling is to also give A the ball at point of fumble, with downs continuing. In this case, 1D was earned, so it's 1D/G @ B-3.

IMHO, this is a major screw up. IWs are bad enough, but to have an IW that involves the EZ.... ouch! Then, the R had to go to the reply two times!? Ouch!

I agree with Mussberger being an idiot.

[mj]

Musburger was a total a$$ from the point of the IW until haftime. Especially at halftime when they interviewed Ferentz and he said the officials got it right. Musburger says, "wait until he finds out the whistle was in the endzone". Moron.

He did some serious apologizing after talking to someone at halftime about the actual rule. However he did sound somewhat amazed that the officials got it right.

[Tom.OH]

Bison, you only had one mistake in your post. You said "then Mussberger goes into "stupid" mode". Actually Mussberger starts the pregame in stupid mode and continues until the final whistle!

[MJT]

I'm sure Dave Parry will send a memo reminding the Big 10 officials that this is why we need to see the ball, in possession, with a player down before blowing the whistle, BUT if you watched that scrum it looked for sure like a player had the ball and then all of a sudden it squirted out. The only thing worse would have been if after it squirted out Iowa would have recovered and then it would have returned to Wisconson at the 3. Luckily it all worked out as Wisconson scored as they would have it the IW had not occured.