Everyone has favorites!! Lets be honest! Listen to the announcers even. If they are covering the school they attended they are so biased. Griese comes to mind, covering the OSU-UM game when his baby boy was QB!! Talk about one sided!!

I don't know if all of the refs in college are "clean", but it cannot be hard to affect a football game. Refs in football have the ability of making no call, i.e. the BUSH PUSH, and could always throw a flag for some bogus holding call on a touchdown run. So are all the refs clean, who knows? I would like to think that for the sake of the integrity of the game that there has never been a college football game affected unfairly by a ref, but with the number of referees employed to call football games, it has probably happened before, and will happen again.

yeah, i noticed some cheating refs for the auburn LSU game last year

There has, and always will be cheating in sports. Just like there has and always will be crime in the world. It has to do with how people are inherintly. And even beofre the recent scandals, guess what, there was plenty of cheating going on and other scandals. The difference is you, the general population dont know about it. Because if you dont get caught, you or anyone else will never know!! Doesn't mean it isn't happening!

Does anyone remember the imaginary pass interference call in the Miami vs. Ohio State game.....

ask any psu football fan if they think the refs are one sided....or just watch any PSU-UM game in Ann Arbor

I think it's stupid to assume collegiate officials are fixing games without any proof whatsoever. Because one bad apple in the NBA messes up BIG TIME, are we to be paranoid about college athletics as well? I dont know if you have ever been close enough to a game to witness these officials but a majority of them are out there laughing and interacting with the student athletes. These men and women have worked very hard to get to where they are at right now, what gives us the right to tear that away from them? It is possible for such circumstances to occur, but until more information comes to light, lets give them the benefit of the doubt.

Yeah, it happens every year when Penn State has to play at Michigan and seconds are added back on the clock or receivers don't need to get one foot down before making a catch.

Yeah, I remember the phantom pass interference call in the Miami-OSU game. I also remember the officials not calling a very obvious roughing the passer against OSU in overtime. I'm pretty sure that the fix was in.

ohio vs miami! now if there ever was cheating in a college game! that was it

Big Ten officiating at Ann Arbor SUCKS! I think those guys are professors at Michigan during the week and put on the stripes on Saturdays. They aren't very fast though, Joepa ran them down from behind.

As long as the zebras keep putting time back on the clock for Lloyd Carr his job will be safe.

Right... I suppose it's those terrible calls that have lead to the Nittany Lions going 0 for the decade against the Wolverines... please.

It's funny what people will grasp for when they're desperate. For every bad call Penn State fans claim that we've gotten in those games, we can easily provide a counter example (Henne's "fumble" in '05, the blatant drop that was ruled a catch in '02).

Officials aren't perfect, they miss calls, and they miss them for both teams on the field, there are some egregious examples that EVERY team can point to (Oklahoma vs Oregon anyone?), but I think you'd be extremely hard pressed to prove that any of them were intentional.

don't need to look any further than a Michigan-PSU game...nothing was more frustrating than Lloyd the crybaby getting seconds added onto the clock

I am just thankful that now challenges are allowed

There is no doubt in my mind that at the 2003 Florida-Florida State game, the refs gave it to FSU. I try to cut refs some slack on sketchy calls, but there were calls in that game that could never have gone the way they did with a clean officiating crew.

Wasn't there an old saying "If ya ain't cheatin', ya ain't tryin' hard enough!"

College sports has it's problems. the biggest being that this isn't the officials day jobs. Second, the appearance of everyone making money, but the athletes just get room, board and tuition.

Makes the Gamblers slobber like dogs chasing a steak.

Follow where the money ain't, and that's where the cheating will most likely start.

Why don't you people actually answer the question instead of harping on perceived slights your favorite team has endured over the years? The question was, do you think the NCAA is doing enough to prevent intentional game fixing by referees and players...not "omg my team always gets screwed at our rivals"

To answer, considering that 4% of football players admitted to taking steps to affect the outcome of game they played in, no, the NCAA doesn't do nearly enough. If a NBA ref who reportedly pulled down 260K a year somehow ends up beholden to the mob, do you really think every football player or basketball player that lives off of a pell grant is immune to payoffs from the mob to fix games? If you do, I've got some nice real estate in Antartica to sell you.

Miami and Ohio State, the robbery in the desert. the ref still hasn't thrown the flag yet

Bad calls do not equal cheating. There is a world of difference between making a bad call and taking cash to call imaginary penalties. People are imperfect so they're going to call imperfect games.

The 2005 Alamo Bowl. Enough said.

I'm not one to pass judgement without knowing the facts but the bush push? i don't know about that one...

did the refs have anything to do with the michigan game in happy valley last year? how many wins does psu have vs UM?

I'd like to see any of you who complain about ref's calls get out there and referee a game, even peewee, and see what it's like.

Do refs make bad/no calls? Absolutely. It is part of the human element in any game that is refereed.

Who wants to sit there and wait 5 minutes after every play while officials monitor every aspect of what happened on the field to make sure all the calls are right? I didn't think so ...

Oregon v. Oklahoma last year seems to be the clearest example of referee cheating in recent memory.

Refs cheating in college basketball is getting very bad.

I'm sick of it.

typical cryami fan - didn't watch the replay of interferance AND holding in the end zone but instead actually believes Dan Fouts' ridiculous comments.
Seriously, couldn't score with first and goal from the 2?

After I read the headline I was immediately ready to post a comment about the scUM refs. But I see that two posts already made it. Man, it's really that obvious isn't it?

I think Lloyd Carr pays off the refs in the PSU/UM games.