Toledo got screwed. The kick was obviously not good. How the officials and the replay officials missed that I will never know - other than that they are crooked. The ball was not above the upright - it obviously passed in front of the upright. It is very clear on the replay.  And the Big East has admitted that the call was wrong.

The game's over, deal with it. People get screwed over all the time and stuff never gets changed (see: Colorado 5th down). This will tarnish what could be a great season for Toledo. You did your best, now move on to MAC play. In a more cynical and straight forward to the point remark: who the hell cares?

Consulting the rulebook, apparently, is for weasels.

This is scarcely the first time a visiting MAC team has been victimized by questionable/phantom/horrendous calls at the home of a major school.  Numerous excamples come to mind.  One is a certain game that was played in Raleigh during a hurricane-force rain.

Another occurred a few years ago when Northern Illinois was visiting Wisconsin.  NIU had the lead and with only a couple minutes or fewer to go, Wisconsin took possession deep in its end.  Then ensued a "drive" during which NIU's defense was penalized 4 times.  Wisconsin scored as time expired to win. 

Hmmm...Were I a MAC school AD, in negotiating a contract to visit a major school, I just might ask that the agreement  include this provision: Before the kickoff, game officials will meet with the visiting team and coaches and pledge to call a fair game. 

Enforceable?  Of course not.  But something like that could influence the way game officials "see" the action.

If this was Ohio getting screwed at Rutgers, there would lots of people here who care. So I'm sure there are plenty of Toledo fans and player that care.

Laughable. Corruption? How are you gonna prove that, sparky? The Big East said (and you can believe it or not) the replay official didn't use the correct camera angle when reviewing the play. You want to take this to court? Really? With what outcome? You want UT to spend a wheelbarrow full of money for "high-powered" lawyers to litigate this? This is fantasyland. I thought you'd be against stupid lawsuits. Think about this. You want a court to change the outcome of a sporting event. Yeah, it sucked, but that happens. Unless it's the final play of the game, you can't change the result. You have to accept the mistake and move on. That's what we all agree on beforehand.

Of course it's not the first time this has happened. Why? Because being a college referee is a sucky job. They don't make a ton of money, they have to handle travel themselves, and everything they do gets scrutinized as much as the freakin' president. And it's a part-time job. It's not as though they're working through the offseason to get better. They're working at their real jobs. You think you can do it well under those circumstances? The best refs by and large are in the NFL. The SEC takes the best of what's left and it gets ugly from there. And the good refs are actually out on the field; they stick the crappier ones in the replay booth.

But it's easier and more convenient to accuse everyone of conspiracies and corruption and being held down and whatnot. It simply can't be human error; it must be  I'm sure there was a lot of pressure behind the scenes to affect the outcome of Toledo at Syracuse. I'm sure millions were riding on that one. Let's get R-Truth on it. Furthermore, how do you know there hasn't been disciplinary action taken?

And something else I'm wondering: Why does Bobcat36 want the MAC to have eggs?

(The worst call I can remember was a few years ago in basketball. Incidentally, it was a Big East crew. Guy hit a game winner that clearly beat the buzzer but it was waived off and the refs did not overturn on the video review. Simply awful. 5th Down was also a worse mistake. Vinny Testaverde's 4-yard TD run from the 5 also comes to mind.)

This inspired me to look this up: http://www.nesn.com/2010/06/breaking-down-the-top-10-wors...

Not included: The pass interference call that kept tOSU alive in 2003.

JSF, there is, ahem, a tiny weakness in your case.  See the boldfaced paragraph above.  Salient point: no man is required to impose on himself such a "sucky" part-time job. 

If one does decide to take on such a job, it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect he will do his utmost to perform at the highest possible level. 

At the least the Big East should suspend for the remainder of the season the replay officials. 

Solution - Toledo gets the choice of taking Syracuse's bowl bid this year 

I never suggested that. I was making the argument the circumstances work to prevent people from doing as good a job as they could no matter how hard they try.

I agree with JSF on this one. I'll go one more: it happened and will continue to happen because we are in the MAC and they are in something bigger. There is a bias in a game like that. Whether the refs admit it or not, they expect the MAC to lose that game. They don't do it intentionally and I'm not saying they cheated, but it's there.

Yeah, and I'd the be saying the same thing if it happened to us. The game is over and they aren't going to bend the rules for us. Move on to the next game.

I was on that CU team and I'm not giving back my ring.  Btw, my cousin was the LB on Missouri who made the tackle on the first 4th down.  *&(^ happens.