The last thing that college football fans want is for refs to be too involved in the action. There were many bad calls in Week 6 but these were egregious.
Nothing sours the mood of a college football fan like a bad call. Even if it favors the team that a fan is rooting for, it feels dirty to see the refs have an unwarranted and, frankly, wrong impact on a given game.
There are some calls that will be argued forever because they were close or bang-bang plays. However, there are some other calls that are just incomprehensibly bad. And itās even worse when those bad calls have a legitimate impact on the outcome of the game.
So as we look at some of the flags that should or shouldnāt have been thrown in college football Week 6, these are by far the worst.
College football: 3 worst calls in Week 6
3. Maryland gets hosed with missed offside call on missed PAT
In what was a shockingly low-scoring and undoubtedly tight battle between Maryland and Purdue in the noon slate on Saturday, any type of bad call couldāve swung the game. And in this case, it was a bad missed call.
With the game tied 17-17, the Terrapins punched in the go-ahead touchdown and then lined up for the extra point. That attempt, however, was blocked by the Boilermakers and gave Maryland only a 23-17 lead at the time. Upon pretty clear review, though, the refs missed a Purdue player that was very clearly offside on the play, thus allowing him to get the blocked PAT.
Even worse, that had a huge outcome on the game. Purdue went on to take a 31-23 lead late and Maryland drove down the field and scored, but needed a two-point conversion to force overtime. They were unsuccessful, thus allowing the Boilermakers to secure the win. Things wouldāve been much more dramatic and interesting in OT if the offsides on the earlier PAT had been called.