All penalties are judgement calls for referees; even the penalties that aren’t supposed to be judgment calls are judgment calls. That’s because every penalty is an evaluation of degree. If a corner hand-fights with a wide receiver this much, there’s no penalty, but if he does it this much, there’s a flag. The old saying goes that, “You could call holding on every play if you wanted to.” Well, I don’t want to, and I seriously hope that none of the refs calling Ohio State’s remaining games do either, because the Buckeyes already have more than enough issues with penalties as it is, and they don’t need any more. In their 49-26 victory over Indiana on Saturday, Ohio State was called for nine penalties for 82 yards. That means that those penalties negated the gains made by the Buckeyes’ leading rusher J.K. Dobbins, who ran for 82 yards. Keep in…
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