Guys, you have your own frickin’ national network. How you can even type with a straight face (check the comments) that NBC is anything but in your corner blows me away.

As for the refs. Cry me a river. Karma’s a bitch. I know, all calls went Pitt’s way, and you didn’t get a one. Right. The fix was in. Uh-huh. Had nothing to do with a porous pass defense, and good receivers. Sure.

Break it down just a bit. You committed a total of 9 penalties for 102 yards.

2 were on special teams — plowing over a receiver signaling for a fair catch and a block in the back on a return for 28 yards total
2 offensive holding penalties on the same drive in the first half for 20 more yards.
2 defensive holding/pass interference calls for 20 yards at the end of the 3rd/start of the 4th Quarter, which had to be bogus because ND was right there with the coverage all game.
2 more pass interference calls in the 4th quarter when Pitt retook the lead 38-35 for 24 more yards.
1 penalty was a personal foul that was offset, so no yardage.

So, you are claiming that your secondary, an admitted weakness, that got torched for 331 yards, surely couldn’t have committed the interference penalties. Those replays were a trick of the camera, and clearly NBC was in the pocket of Pitt not showing anything questionable like say a late hit call against Pitt to help the domers get within field goal range to tie the game at the end of the 4th. But then the refs clearly helped Pitt march right down the field in a minute to kick a game winning field goal by, by, help me out here. Oh, that’s right there were no whistles. ND let Pitt roll down the field all by themselves.

Live with it. Your team blew it. They didn’t get jobbed. They didn’t get the game ripped from them. It was an all offense game, you committed one more turnover than Pitt, and ultimately the last team with the ball won.