Last play of the Big 12 Championship, Huskers are up 13-10.  Colt McCoy throws the ball out of bounds.  Clock shows 0:00.  Game over.  Not so fast.  The officiating team reviews the play and gives the Longhorns 1 second back.  They kick a game winning field goal.  Whorns win 13-12. 

According to Big 12 supervisor of officials Walt Anderson, Texas got one more second Saturday because a play ends when ball is dead. Instant replay showed that Colt McCoy’s pass hit a railing with :01 to play. The Big 12 replay rule says replay may be used to alter the clock only after an on-field call has been reversed. However, NCAA rules say that timing errors may be corrected and that if the referee has “positive knowledge” of the elapsed time, he may reset the clock.

Think of the implications of this homer call.  If Texas lost, we'd have interesting match ups all through the BCS games.  Nebraska vs TCU in the Fiesta, Bama vs Cinci in the Championship, Florida vs Boise in the sugar and Texas vs Iowa in the Orange bowl.  But instead we'll know how bad Texas really is and we'll never know how good TCU was this year. 

We've been robbed of a great week of games by another group of Texas homer refs.  Best remaining BCS game is Florida and Cinci.  Best non-bcs game is Penn State vs LSU.