re: How bad were the refs? For those that watched on tv

The big play Ole Miss had that almost went for a TD was an obvious pick play. I mean the guy straight up blocked the defender downfield before the downfield throw. The exact same thing was called at the end of FSU-ND and it was a less obvious infraction by ND.

Additionally Ole Miss had another big play extended by a block in the open field below the knee. I thought this was also a penalty.

These stuck out as the defense was shutting Ole Miss down and these were a couple of their big plays that fromy view should have been called back.

Also how can an offense with the clock under ten seconds left in the game basically take a delay of game penalty to get a timeout (basically what happened in the game). That seemed weird to me. I thought there were rules to prevent offenses from abusing the system with penalties.