Does college football have as bad an officiating problem like they do in the NFL?

[Alsacs]

I was thinking about this and while their are surely some bad subjective penalties called I don't think refs swing games like they can in the NFL. NFL officials on the whole get a lot more wrong.

With every play on the field being reviewed in college their is no need to challenge.
A lot of penalties in college football are on discipline and that is coaching.

In the pro game teams are limited in how many plays are automatically reviewed.
We as Syracuse fans complain about it and I would say we get more bad whistles than good whistles but that is just random.
Refs screwed us last year in the Pitt game and the 1998 Tennessee game we all remember, 2002 Ohio State-Miami NC game.

How many other memorable college games got turned on bad calls? It's not like the NFL with Rams-Saints last year or every single Buffalo Bills game according to Orangeman.

 

[Scooch]

NC State, 2019.

Yes, college football officiating is just as abysmal. Football overall is a mess.

 

[gmoney44]

The ACC refs are the worst on the planet.

 

[cuse10]

Yes, they do. The NFL really highlights how bad the college level is and they're brutal themselves. This is a part-time job for them and it shows with the carelessness they officiate games with.

 

[Bayside44]

We are preconditioned to look for a flag after a big play, college or pro.

It's almost an impossible sport to get right.

 

[upperdeck]

at least the Pros try to limit the damage of flow if game.. I wish college would just change it to you get replays until you get 2 wrong. then teams dont get hosed multiple times a game.

 

[Newhouser]

I think the NFL guys are too literal with too little sway in term of overlooking the rule. College guys - in part due to the sheer number of games each weekend - don't seem as tied to the letter of the rule.

 

[CanadianSU]

I think this may or may not be about the Patriots game ! Also the NFL has way better officials than the College game. If those calls that happened against Cuse this year were in the NFL they’d be talked about for a long time.

 

[Alsacs]

I think this may or may not be about the Patriots game ! Also the NFL has way better officials than the College game. If those calls that happened against Cuse this year were in the NFL they’d be talked about for a long time.

Not about the Patriots at all. The Saints have been screwed so many times within just this year I don't know how Payton doesn't get fined his entire salary.

The PI in the NFC Championship game.
The fumble in the Rams game this year.
A fumble in the first Falcons game.
The PI review against the Panthers.
Yesterday against the 49ers.

The NFL officiating is unbelievably bad. College football it doesn't seem like its as bad. They don't swing games like they do in the NFL because in pro football the teams are about even talent wise. So the refs calls are huge in college football the talent gaps make it hard for refs to swing games.

 

[Bayside44]

Not about the Patriots at all. The Saints have been screwed so many times within just this year I don't know how Payton doesn't get fined his entire salary.

The PI in the NFC Championship game.
The fumble in the Rams game this year.
A fumble in the first Falcons game.
The PI review against the Panthers.
Yesterday against the 49ers.

The NFL officiating is unbelievably bad. College football it doesn't seem like its as bad. They don't swing games like they do in the NFL because in pro football the teams are about even talent wise. So the refs calls are huge in college football the talent gaps make it hard for refs to swing games.

In a college game a PI either way can flip a game. The variable talent level makes it easier for a cheap bad call to make a big deal.

Yesterday two TDs literally got taken off the board.

 

[PAcuse]

I think overall college officiating is better.
ACC hands down has the worse official.
NFL officials are terrible.
Ravens v Bills came was a nightmare officiating wise. No rhythm or reason on when they threw flags for PI. They let them play most of the game, which I'm fine with, then throw a flag on the Ravens when I player is missed into the QB after the play.
Just painful to watch how NFL officials are and replay PI is worthless.

 

[SmilinBob]

You could call holding on almost every play. Just watch any unopen receiver and there is grabbing and clutching often by both but mostly by the D. O holds on the line are almost as frequent even on running plays. What is the exact rule for jumping early for an offensive linemen? I can see them move upward before the snap at a high rate.

Refs could call it all/what they see or they just call it when they can but the complete randomness of it is mind boggling. It's starting to look like the NBA or pro wrestling and with gambling being so incredibly prevalent in the sport along with the big bowl/TV $ personally, I've lost interest in getting too wrapped up in something so manipulated by a few stripped shirts.

 

[texascpa]

We are preconditioned to look for a flag after a big play, college or pro.

It's almost an impossible sport to get right.

Not only that, but most fans do not know or understand all of rules. You know it's bad when Booger McFarland, who played college and pro and commentates Monday Night Football, says on National TV that it's a penalty to have more than 7 men on the line of scrimmage. SM Damn Head.

 

[upperdeck]

I remember the game Freeney got a penalty for jumping early and when i rewatched you see the ball move, him jump and everyone else a beat late cause he was so quick off the ball.

 

[ColoradoB]

The Lions vs Packers game this year was all anyone needed to see just how bad NFL officiating can ruin and change a game. Only NFL game I have watched this year and tells me I made the right choice in no longer watching. Just seems like entertainment the last few years.