Ok, so you football analysts out there help me with this. On a critical 4th and 6 we got flagged for illegal formation and we then went from a missed FG to Penn State going for it, getting the first down, and then fighting for a touchdown.

My thought at the time was that must be a really flagrant rules violation for them to call that at that critical of a time in the game. So.... was it? Was this an obvious violation that should be flagged every time... or was this a minor petty call?

(And for transparency, I don't think Gus and Joel talked about this call in detail, but I was watching the game at work and trying to do three things at once. It might have slipped by me.)