It was an obvious hold

If the QB is already sacked before he could even throw to a held player, why call it?

Are you trying to convince us or yourself that you deserved to win the game?

B12 officials consistently allow WR and DB to play from crew to crew and game to game, not calling even more egregious activity, and they call that?!

I would be interested in when the flag was thrown. Was it thrown when the alleged hold occurred, when Retzlaff was in the grasp or after the play?

That will help prove or disprove my personal conspiracy theories.

It was a BS call and a case of an official playing God. He giveth and he taketh away.

Not the best view of the play but the ref reached for his flag at about the same time the crowd noise signaled the sack.

Vaughn hold call

If it’s a hold by rule, you can’t let the exact same thing go on all game (watch how byu played singer) and then call it in that moment.

It’s a stupid f**king call. If that is holding then the refs missed 2-3 calls on #2 covering Singer.

If King’s holding call was holding then the refs missed BYU holding Reid every time he blitzed.

BYU’s QB had zero shot in that play. The play was dead before it started. Whether or not it was holding Utah f**king destroyed BYU.

And the refs f**ked up with an absolutely awful f**king call.

Hahahha BYU fans are morons! It literally took the refs for your all mighty team to beat a bad 4-4 Utah team! You got saved! Move on!

It was not a hold because even if the QB has not been sacked the Utah players had him wrapped up and he could not have planted and gone through a throwing motion. Horrible call to keep byu in the CFP

I’m wondering which hold? Cause I saw an obvious hold on Fillinger… it should have at the very least offset

Get off our Utah Fan website Zoobs! We don’t want you here. If you want to talk with people who agree with you go to zooberboard.
And all the talk about Harlan and Whitt complaining to the refs- shut your mouth. Sitake and Retzlaff complained to the refs all the way to the locker room after the first half. Makes me wonder if that is where the seed was planted for those refs. Remember when Jordan got called for that push off B Russ? Of course not- refs shouldn’t influence the game on a game deciding play for something that happened the whole freaking game.

What Joel Klatt said about it is how I feel about it. I think that call could go either way and is ultimately a subjective flag in a gray area. Obviously, as a Utah fan, I’m biased to think that this is a super ticky-tacky call. I feel like plays like this happen all the time in football. A BYU fan will say it’s a “textbook” hold. Clearly, it’s not obvious in either direction…

And so the biggest problem (and ultimately why Utah is so upset) is that it wasn’t consistent w/ how the game was called all night long (or all season). Plenty of plays where BYU defenders created contact earlier in the game. Plenty of plays where Utah defenders created contact earlier in the game (which Sitake even admitted). How can you let them play that way all night, but not allow it on the last drive (play) of the game?

All that said, credit to BYU for putting together a clutch drive to get the last second FG. Utah still had the opportunity to stop them (although that call was a huge momentum shift in favor of BYU). And if Utah’s offense could’ve mustered one first down when the defense gave them great field position multiple times late in the game, they could’ve put it away.

You need to let it go and enjoy your win. There must be better things for you to do than educate Utah fan on why your opinion is the only one to be considered.