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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!"

Avinash Kunnath
Sep 26, 2022
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UPDATE: Apparently no one was suspended and that ref made the trip to another Notre Dame game. Amazing.

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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.
6:15 PM ∙ Sep 26, 2022
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Instead, he was part of crew assigned to Notre Dame at North Carolina. He worked a Fighting Irish game for the second consecutive week.
6:15 PM ∙ Sep 26, 2022
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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:

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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.
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4:13 PM ∙ Sep 24, 2022
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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).

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Cal was called offsides on this missed Notre Dame Field Goal. Nobody was close to being offsides.
7:43 PM ∙ Sep 17, 2022
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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?

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diasfordays
Sep 26, 2022

If we're printing shirts, put me down for a "Cal 20, Notre Dame 17" since we'd have just kicked a routine field goal instead of thrown up a hail mary. But of course, parallel universes don't matter...

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Bowlesman80
Sep 26, 2022·edited Sep 26, 2022

My T-Shirt will say:

"The Immaculate Encroachment

Cal v. Notre Dame

2022"

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