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Was just thinking about next year and this teams possibilities with a very talented roster.

Then I thought about having to play with our ACC officials again. It was such a relief to not have to deal with ACC officials the entire playoffs. We didnt see the constant stoppage in play because of bogus penalties and needless reviews. The game flow was so much better in the playoffs.

We are by far the most affected by these refs and it is every year. So not looking forward to the worst officiating in college football.
 
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Jankovich said:
Was just thinking about next year and this teams possibilities with a very talented roster.

Then I thought about having to play with our ACC officials again. It was such a relief to not have to deal with ACC officials the entire playoffs. We didnt see the constant stoppage in play because of bogus penalties and needless reviews. The game flow was so much better in the playoffs.

We are by far the most affected by these refs and it is every year. So not looking forward to the worst officiating in college football.
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The biggest blessing was no ACC refs in playoffs. We don't make it out of round 1 with ACC refs IMO. They are the most incompetent Mofos going.
 
Simple: be more disciplined and so much better than all other teams that the refs can’t impact games even if they are gambling. Had our offense been more productive, we are 13-0 with a round 1 bye. While I hate the acc and the acc refs, 2026 should take this team to a new level that even the acc refs can’t impact.
 
90scane said:
Simple: be more disciplined and so much better than all other teams that the refs can’t impact games even if they are gambling. Had our offense been more productive, we are 13-0 with a round 1 bye. While I hate the acc and the acc refs, 2026 should take this team to a new level that even the acc refs can’t impact.
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I mean, I would say we beat SMU by 14+ with no other changes to the game other than replacing the refs with the refs we had in the playoffs. We were by far the better team. They had 4 fairly inconsequential penalties to our remarkably timely 12.

We have the largest discrepancy in America between a team's average penalties in a year vs when they play us, and the largest discrepancy in America between a team's opponent's average penalties vs what we have against them. You can only say "don't let the refs affect a game" to a point. 10-14 plays a game can completely derail a team's chances to win.

The ACC refs should be investigated. There are way too many data points to justify the continued employment of these jabronis. Yet, who is the governing body that would investigate them? Ah, yes, the group of people that might hate Miami more than anyone else in America, our own ******* conference.

Rant over.
 
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We play such a more physical brand of football than the ACC, that it seems to **** us in the regular season. The other conferences already play the way we do, which is why we fair better with those refs.

As has been mentioned, there needs to be some kind of internal acceptance from the ACC that physical/violent doesn’t equal undisciplined/illegal.

We OBVIOUSLY need to clean up procedural penalties — those are on us — but we seem to get a lot of ticky tack calls against us that we a) didn’t see as much in the CFP and b) don’t get the benefit of in ACC play.
 
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90scane said:
Simple: be more disciplined and so much better than all other teams that the refs can’t impact games even if they are gambling. Had our offense been more productive, we are 13-0 with a round 1 bye. While I hate the acc and the acc refs, 2026 should take this team to a new level that even the acc refs can’t impact.
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Many of our penalties during ACC play were procedural which had nothing to do with the refs to your point.

We play disciplined football this 2026 season will be loads of fun
 
The SMU game was egregious with that late hit called on the QB where we held the QB up from going to the ground, and the picking up the pass interference flag that was so blatent. That cost us having to campaign our way into the playoffs. But all year was so bad.

No doubt in my mind that we deal with the awfulness next year.
 
We will never have ACC refs in the CFB playoffs they don’t allow officials from either team’s conferences to do the games…

And as bad as the officials were last year our worst penalties were the self- imposed ones that stopped drives and were the false starts we continuously had or Blay smashing into the center once a game keeping drives alive which had nothing to do with officiating

I think the most egregious calls are the obvious non-calls for holding against opponents and if it plays out again this year Mario needs to address it pre-game with the officiating to make sure they know we will be watching to see if they’re called or not.
 
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One thing I was really happy to see in the playoffs was that Mario seemed to be much more inclined to get in the refs ***, hopefully that continues.
I have to be honest, though hearing Mario talk about how much he disliked weekday games and then them giving us four seemed pretty, well… Let’s just say ironic
 
Fatboycane said:
This playoff run proved that acc officiating is either crooked, incompetent or a combination of both.
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A combination of bias, incompetence, and crookedness for sure.

The other reason there were less penalties is also because the CFB committee told them "listen, these people aren't tuning in to watch you jackasses ham fist this ****. They're here to watch football."

So, they were basically told them to swallow their whistles and only call blatant and obvious penalties. If only the ACC wasn't so incompetent with a tobacco road influence, they could learn a thing or two.
 
JamesQuall said:
A combination of bias, incompetence, and crookedness for sure.

The other reason there were less penalties is also because the CFB committee told them "listen, these people aren't tuning in to watch you jackasses ham fist this ****. They're here to watch football."

So, they were basically told them to swallow their whistles and only call blatant and obvious penalties. If only the ACC wasn't so incompetent with a tobacco road influence, they could learn a thing or two.
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You can be sure that some of these dudes grew up in the 80's while we were punking their favorite teams.
 
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