... that cost West Virginia a chance to upset a Top five team at its home field and stay in the chase for the Big East Title:

—The Cincy fumble at the goal line that was reversed and turned into a touchdown.

—WVU's call on 3rd-and-9 when it was driving in the fourth quarter for a tying touchdown.

The first call is 50-50. The ball certainly didn't break the plane of the goal line, but it may have touched it. I don't know if depressing but not puncturing the meniscus of the goal line counts as a touchdown, but I was never good at fluid dynamics. Evidently, the Big East refereeing crew was.

The second call, even though Coach Stewart defended it, is really indefensible. Not the call—a running play on third-and-...

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