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Nope. Referees have never admitted when they made bad calls

Do you really think everyone is just a ND hater? ND isn't even on my radar, but I watched the game, and it looked like a TD to me.

Of course you do realize he is a paid consultant of the pac 12?

He was the Senior Director of Officiating for the NFL, you homer. I trust his eye more than practically any other person in the world of football.

Continue on with your conspiracy theory if you want though.

Oh, and the downvote brigade is really cute. You guys really don't handle criticism well.

I love Michigan fans, most of them have this weird "ND" complex. And yes of course I downvoted you, the second time was just for laughs.

Justice.......

#winning

the whistle was blown game over..

How did Notre Dame benefit by the whistle being blown early? Were we watching the same play where Taylor was stacked up until Teo and others started celebrating?

Don't get me wrong, I think the whistle went early as well, but if you watch, Taylor was stuffed, and if the play continued Teo is not letting him squirm in.

Which makes it even more credible because Pac12 refs worked the game. So, he is criticizing his own people.

Don't you go bustin' in here with all that logic.

The refs determined his forward progress stopped. Just because he could move forward after the whistle does not mean his forward progress was not stopped. By the time Taylor was reaching across the goal line, Te'o was 2 steps away celebrating.

National coordinator of officials Rogers Redding told the AP in a phone interview Tuesday there was nothing unusual about the way officials on the field or in the replay booth handled the decisive play.

He also says that from the replay he saw, he "would have to let that call stand."

"Most of the comments I heard were, 'It looked like to me that' or 'It sure looked like this.' The replay official has to say, 'There is no doubt in my mind.'"

Redding said a runner's progress is reviewable only on plays that could produce first downs or touchdowns.

So in the case of the last play of Notre Dame's goal line stand against the Cardinal, the fact that Taylor was lying on a pile of defenders and his knees were never down, or that one of his elbows might have touched the turf before he stuck the ball into the end zone, should have been irrelevant to the replay officials.

Only the runner's progress being stopped was reviewable, Redding said. Replay officials don't have access to audio and cannot determine whether a whistle has blown the play dead.

Notre Dame players and coach Brian Kelly contended that Taylor's last reach came after the play was blown dead. A couple of Notre Dame players, including Manti Te'o, could be seen on replays starting to celebrate right before Taylor put the ball across the line.

Redding did say that replay officials can use field officials' signals as visual evidence of when a play has been stopped. On one replay angle, the side judge could be seen moving toward the pile of players to spot the ball, just as Taylor made his last reach.

"He's not going to charge in unless he's sure in his mind that the play is over," he said. "That's another indicator that the play is dead."