[wal66]

In overtime of the Vandy/Tennessee game the Vol's intercepted a pass and ran it in for the winning score, only they didn't.

Due to the position of the sideline judge it looked as if the player's knee touched and the official could be seen coming in to mark the spot and heard blowing his whistle.

Obviously Tennessee is celebrating and there was much noise but the head official came back to the spot talked with the official who made the call and then announced that the player was down by contact. That's all well and good but wrong cause the player wasn't down by contact and Tennessee challenges.

The official announces that Tennessee is challenging and that there was NO SIGNAL nor WHISTLE which clearly there was but by this time the replays have been seen by everyone.

After review they overturn the call and the touchdown stands.

It was a bad call in the first place but the call was made and a whistle can not be overturned. They knew the whistle couldn't be overturned and that is the ONLY reason to say there was no signal or whistle prior to going to the review process.

The officials blew the call and it would have been wrong had the Vol's ended up not scoring on their possession of overtime and had Vandy gone on to win but it doesn't make it right to say something never happened that did happen just to make it right either.

Obviously this wasn't a situation of a ref being on the take or having a vested interest in the game but not taking ownership of your mistake is just as bad.

[wal66]

http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/i...ls-overtime-td

The comments that follow are typical of fans which is understandable but still sad.I wasn't aware though that this was the same crew from the Arkansas/Florida game but that is interesting if true.

[wade1]

very interesting