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<\/p>\nMiami and Ohio State are coming down to the wire in the College Football Playoff at the Cotton Bowl.<\/p>\n
The No. 10 Hurricanes are leading the No. 2 Buckeyes by three points late in the fourth quarter. It’s Miami 17, Ohio State 14 with 2:00 to play. The Hurricanes are looking to put the game away.<\/p>\n
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But Miami appears to have gotten some help from the refs.<\/p>\n
The Cotton Bowl officiating crew appeared to miss a “huge” penalty on Miami’s big third down conversion. One of Miami’s offensive players appeared to line up offside – and it didn’t even seem that close.<\/p>\n
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Miami was offside.ESPN.<\/p>\n
Miami wide receiver Malachi Toney, No. 10, appears to be very much over the black line of scrimmage.<\/p>\n
College football fans ripping referees for blown call<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s rare for an offensive offside to be an egregious missed call but that was one of them. That was a huge 3rd down and it could not have been more obvious,” one fan wrote.<\/p>\n
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“Refs must have money on Miami. Weak hold on OSU when they’re on offense to stall their drive and then a Miami WR was a full half yd offside and no call on a key 3rd down pickup,” one fan added.<\/p>\n
“Toney was way offside horrible missed call by refs,” one fan added.<\/p>\n
“Toney was a mile offside and still no flag on Miami,” another fan added.<\/p>\n
The referees have kept their flags in their pockets for the most part on Wednesday evening. However, it looks like they missed a big one in that play.<\/p>\n
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Miami and Ohio State are playing on ESPN.<\/p>\n
This story was originally published by The Spun<\/a> on Jan 1, 2026, where it first appeared in the College Football<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami and Ohio State are coming down to the wire in the College Football Playoff at the Cotton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[38384,10241,4658,123,125,124,10783],"class_list":["post-103274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-buckeyes","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-malachi-toney","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-ohio-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}