…wouldn’t have been complaining all these years.  And maybe no one would continue to label the Terry Porter call as “controversial” because he was 100% correct in throwing the flag, even if he perhaps erred in the timing of it.

Below is a link to a good overall story on that BCS game and the trajectories of the two teams since then.

And there is a very nice summary of that Terry Porter flag:

“In July of 2003, Dennis Dodd wrote up a piece for CBS Sports vindicating referee Porter's decision to throw a flag.  In the eyes of the head officiating bosses, where Porter mostly erred was in his delayed timing. 

‘Earlier this year Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg said game films had been reviewed and that, in fact, Porter had made the right call. The Big Ten supervisor of officials, who is used by the NCAA to assign officials for bowl games, concurred this week. 

The problem is, few people saw the actual infraction. All the replays focused on Miami defensive back Glenn Sharpe jumping for a ball in the end zone intended for Ohio State receiver Chris Gamble.’”

There’s more on this and I think it’s well worth the read.  The bottom line: I do think that if replay review had existed back then, there is no question the call would have been upheld—and then fans of the U would have had nothing to whine about.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/miami-vs-ohio-state-2003...