Officiating is bound to be a hot topic on 'Game Day' this week

 
By Mel Bracht | Published: September 12, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

ESPN analyst Todd Blackledge doesn't expect Oklahoma's 34-33 loss at Oregon in 2006 — in which several questionable calls contributed to the outcome — to be much of a factor when the Sooners return to the Pacific Northwest to play at Washington on Saturday night.

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"They are too far removed from that,” said Blackledge, who will call the game with Mike Patrick and sideline reporter Holly Rowe. "I think the memory of what happened last year in the Fiesta Bowl (a 48-28 loss to West Virginia) is lingering more than what happened when they last played in the Pacific Northwest.”

However, ESPN "College GameDay” analyst Kirk Herbstreit said OU coach Bob Stoops should use the OU-Oregon game as a motivating factor and show the game tape to his team tonight at the team hotel.

Herbstreit said, "I'd show them that tape and say, ‘We're not going to let this game be close enough to let the officials have an effect on this game.

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