No. Tom Osborne told Shatel yesterday that the crew next weekend is a crew that hasn't officiated a Nebraska game yet this year. They're all ranked #1 at their respective positions. Big 12 Head Official Walt Anderson assured Osborne of this. FWIW, Osborne was pleased with this news.So since the crew headed by burkes that hate Nebraska is doing the OUvsOSU game tonight does that mean they are not doing the championship game? Does anyone know who will? I hope its not them since they screwed us last year and this year so far.
GO BIG RED!!
What should help is the choice of officials. Osborne said Walt Anderson, the Big 12's supervisor of officials, told him the crew who did the Nebraska-Texas A&M game would not be doing the Big 12 championship game.
"We do get an all-star group of officials, No. 1 at their positions,'' Osborne said. "These will be supposedly the No. 1-rated referees. It won't be the same group (as A&M). As far as I'm concerned, that sounds good. We're pleased.
"My understanding is that the referee will be from a different crew and we haven't had that crew. And there will be four members of this person's crew there, and they're all rated very high. I don't think we've had that crew this year.''
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