Emerald Bowl - USC tops Boston College with officials help

Yes, USC beat Boston Collage 24-13 in the Emerald Bowl in San Francisco, but I've got to believe something really awful in media's going on when the mainstream press doesn't point out the obviously really questionable calls in this game, and it takes a blog like The Bleacher Report to tell it like it is:

It was almost like watching professional wrestling in that the fix seemed so clearly to be on.

Why is Google allowing a really imaginary hierarchy between "news" and "blogs" when all news articles do is express someone's opinion without using the term "I"? But I digress.  If TMZ's the only blog considered reliable, they need to hurry-up with TMZSports.com.

The NCAA  and Congress should conduct an investigation for having a bowl game that had two calls that looked like - to me - the officials were in on some kind of fix. How else can one explain a long pass in the second quarter that was obviously caught out of bounds as a catch?

How can anyone say that a video which showed a ball bouncing into the foot of a USC player on a punt turn, as that player was pushing the Boston College punt defender, was USC's ball because the USC person was blocked into the ball?

It's right there on the video - unless the video was destroyed.  Did anyone make a video of the game?

Wow.

Sorry. For the media not to question what's in their face and with outrage is outrageous. I'm happy the Pac-10 won a 2009 bowl game, but come on! Not this way.

Anytime one can go to a Cal Football forum and see that fans know the officials were making "pro-USC" calls, you know there's a problem. Say, even though Cal fans are USC rivals, we're supposed to root for the Pac-10 in bowl games. I expect to see the complaint at a Boston College forum, and I did, but Cal too?

This is a matter of right versus wrong. It really hurt to watch that game.

USC was not playing much better than Boston College until after that punt return call, which could have and would have changed the momentum of the game and given Boston College the ball at the USC 30.

Didn't happen.

The refs spent a good five minutes "coming up with the wording" as one ESPN annoucer put it, to explain the call they were about to make. Even ESPN's Rod Gillmore was aghast, asking anyone why they were taking so much time.

The 2009 Emerald Bowl will go down as a game that did not show NCAA College Football at its officiating best.