ACC refs unofficially suspend official for phantom Cal offside against Notre Dame

"We've investigated ourselves and found we did a thing that was wrong that hurt Cal, but will not tell anyone publicly. Have a great day!"

UPDATE: Apparently no one was suspended and that ref made the trip to another Notre Dame game. Amazing.

Roxy Bernstein @roxybernstein

Just received information from ACC that Linesman Matthew Fitzgerald did in fact work a game this past weekend crewed by the conference. He was not with his regular crew which officiated Georgia Tech at UCF.

Roxy Bernstein @roxybernstein

Instead, he was part of crew assigned to Notre Dame at North Carolina. He worked a Fighting Irish game for the second consecutive week.

For those wanting an update on the Cal and Notre Dame offside call, we have news! The ACC messed up, but will not tell anyone.

Roxy Bernstein with the update:

Roxy Bernstein @roxybernstein

According to sources, ACC has suspended side judge from last Saturday Cal at Notre Dame who called Cal for being offside on this play. ACC apologized to Cal for error and admitted was bad call. As of now, they don’t plan on making public acknowledgment of error and punishment.

With Cal up 7-0 in the second quarter, Notre Dame lined up to kick a field goal to get their first points of the game. The Irish missed the field goal, but Cal was called for an offside penalty that. You can see in the above line drawn by the announcers (who were incredulous about the call).

Scott Nelson 5️⃣1️⃣3️⃣ @snelson2127

Cal was called offsides on this missed Notre Dame Field Goal. Nobody was close to being offsides.

Notre Dame went from a missed field goal to immediately scoring a game-tying touchdown, and eventually went onto win 24-17.

So if you’re counting at home, Cal had a very real chance to go 4-0 (or at least play for it in an overtime situation). Since that touchdown shouldn’t have happened, should we print the “Cal 17, Notre Dame 17” t-shirts?