Clearly, SU had a rooting interest in today’s Ohio State – Michigan game.  Michigan dominated the game and made its share of turnovers to keep Ohio State in the game despite Michigan’s heroic effort on defense.  But it’s a shame when the game comes down to a few penalty calls and non-calls plus the replay officials lacking the guts to overturn a spot on what would have been a game ending play in OT.

If you watch a lot of Big Ten football like SU week in and week out, you know that the Big Ten officials are bad – they are just bad.  For a major conference that draws hundreds of thousands of fans to its games each season, you would think they could do better.  Today was just another example of that and Michigan paid the price.

It’s true: the QB handed OSU 14 points on turnovers and that was a killer.  But in OT, a non-call on pass interference when lesser calls went against Michigan like that all day was a huge play.

Ohio State has now escaped three times this season in close games and they are not likely to win the championship.  But you need to ref the game fairly in the rivalry games and it’s a shame it came down to this in the end.  SU still enjoys the journey of the season and life will go on as we know it.  But the Big Ten should be embarrassed.