Oregon State gets justice on go-ahead touchdown after missed offsides call

The Oregon State Beavers scored the go-ahead touchdown on Oregon after an awful sequence by the referees, including a horrendous missed offsides call. 

If you tuned in to the Oregon-Oregon State rivalry game with the Beavers at the goal line, trailing by four points and facing a fourth down, you might have caught the game-winning touchdown. But you wouldn’t know just how sweet it was.

The quarterback on the play was Chance Nolan, receiving his first career snap and scoring his first career touchdown. But even that’s not what made it so special.

Nor was it the fact that the Beavers were on the verge of upsetting their bitter rival.

Simply put, anything but a touchdown for Oregon State would have been an absolute miscarriage of justice.

Oregon State was nearly screwed by a terrible missed call

Truthfully, the Beavers had already scored a touchdown before that QB sneak. Tristan Gebbia kept the ball and clearly crossed the goal line, but the ruling on the field was that he was short of the line, and replay didn’t have the view to overturn it.

On third-and-goal from inches away, the Beavers tried the same play, keeping the ball in Gebbia’s hands. This time he was stopped short thanks in no small part to the worst offsides missed call you’ll ever see in your life.

Oregon was wearing highlighter jerseys that screamed, “Look at me!” and the refs still couldn’t see the Duck whose torso was completely across the goal line at the snap. Sure, the game had been riddled with foggy conditions, but there was no excuse for such a blown call.

To add injury to insult, Gebbia hurt his leg on the play and had to be replaced.

Nolan got the job done of course. He scored the touchdown and another Oregon offsides, this time called, allowed the Beavers a second shot at a missed extra point. They went up 41-38 and held off the Ducks in the waning seconds to complete the upset.