Perhaps the worst targeting call I’ve ever seen.
Wow.
Might be a worse call than the infamous Tettleton “safety” from the 4 yard line.
Sorry, not even close to that pile of Buffalo chips.
Agreed. The targeting was BS but the phantom safety for Mack was the worst call in the history of OU football or perhaps college football. It was an officiating crew that was buying the Mack hype (which was real) and just gave it to him. A travesty.
I was reading a article on the 30 worst calls in sports history a few years ago and the safety was on it. The targeting probably won't even make SportsCenter. We'll discuss it this week. It might make the radar of other MAC fans and people that watched it. Then it might not get mentioned again. They aren't close.
To me it wasn't just that safety. That might have been the worst officiated game in the history of college football. My brother called me from Louisiana complaining about how that first half was so far possibly the worst called half he'd ever seen and, while a lot of bad calls had gone against us, more were in our favor. Then while I was talking with him we proceeded to get into FG range on the strength of two bad calls against Buffalo. If I recall, and it was over 10 years ago so I might have this wrong, then our receiver caught a ball sliding to the ground and it popped out when he hit the ground. This is somehow ruled a fumble and a Buffalo player picks it up with his knee on the ground and then starts to run and stepped out of bounds and then goes about 70 yards for a TD and they play wasn't reviewed. The safety was an error. An egregious one but could not be reviewed at the time. To me the fact that they got the reviewable
call wrong was also pretty crazy bad on top of numerous other bad calls.
You can't still find video of the safety but I wish I could go back and watch that first half and see if it was actually as bad as my memory.