There is no doubt that the instant replay feature instilled in NCAA and NFL football games has changed many games for the better. Because we are all human, we will always make mistakes. 

With this incredible technology and advantage that is given to both teams, you would think that officials would be able to get every call right when it is given the chance to be reviewed. 

Now I understand that, despite the amazing clarity in today's video imaging, there are simply angles that cannot be viewed.  I get it. 

In the last two days of college bowl games (and I haven't even seen anywhere close to all of them), I have watched two games in particular taken out of the players' hands, and placed into the hands of what a lot of times seemed like a biased officiating crew's hands. 

The two games I speak of were the Clemson-Nebraska Gator Bowl and the Kentucky-East Carolina Liberty Bowl. 

For anyone that has read any of my previous articles, you all know I am a heavy Clemson fan who bleeds orange.  This is why I will talk about the Kentucky-ECU game in a few moments. 

First, the Clemson-Nebraska game. 

The Gator Bowl, for the most part, was an incredible game to be in the stands for.  It was a well-fought, back-and-forth, defensive battle that was incredibly exciting to watch. 

Something that surprised me though, was the amount of no-calls and bad calls that I watched (on both sides). 

Some people who have not clicked the back button or fallen asleep yet may be saying, "Well you don't want many penalties called because it slows the game down," or "I don't like to see the referees drag the players down and not let them play their game." 

I am right there with you.  I despise seeing games dragged out by too many ticky-tack penalties (as I call them) that could be called, but probably shouldn't. 

I also don't like seeing so many penalties that it seems like their is a yellow snot-holder flying through the air on every other play. 

But when a game is decided by a referee not throwing a flag that 40,000 fans on one side are Raising Cain and the other 40,000 are trying to withhold sheepish grins because they know they got away with one, there is something wrong. 

There were many of these that I saw (again, on both sides of the ball) during the Clemson-Nebraska nail-biter. Many of these were among the big bullies in the trenches rapping knuckles with each other. 

The big gripe I have with officiating crews though, lies in the review process. 

Any time a play is being reviewed, it is hard not to hear announcers comment how there must but "indisputable video evidence" to overturn the call on the field.

In my opinion, these simple three words are lost in the review process. 

During the Gator Bowl, there is one play in particular where I believe that this is lost.  When Joe Ganz was knocked out of the game for a series, backup Patrick Witt was brought in and fumbled the football, which was returned by Clemson to go up 27-21. 

The call was overturned. 

If you look at the replays, it is quite close whether the ball came out before Witt's knees hit the ground. But allow me to go back and restate what must be found to over-rule a call on the field (which was touchdown): "indisputable video evidence." 

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