Bill Corollo said the officials only made one mistake.
“What we didn’t do properly was the back judge, the person covering the return man, when he caught that ball, the whistle should have been blown dead, and the play was over,” Carollo said.
Had the back judge done that (and stopped the touchdown play from even starting to unfold), “we wouldn’t have the conversation.”
If a play like Cooper DeJean’s invalid fair catch — the infamous one in Iowa’s loss to Minnesota — happens again in 2024 the final say will go to the Big Ten’s new replay center in Chicago rather than the replay official at the stadium.
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