{"id":1625,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1625","headline":"Big 12 officials reverse call, gift BYU a touchdown against Arizona State","dek":"A fumble ruled dead for forward progress became a Sione Moa touchdown after a second video review, leaving the Fox broadcast crew baffled and Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham fuming.","body":"BYU took a 7-0 lead over Arizona State on Saturday thanks to a replay decision nobody on the broadcast could fully explain. On second and goal from the one-yard line, quarterback Bear Bachmeier fumbled on a sneak attempt. Officials initially ruled his forward progress had been stopped, ending the play and giving BYU the ball at the one-yard line.\n\nThen the Big 12's replay review center got involved. After a second look, officials overturned the original call, crediting running back Sione Moa with recovering the loose ball and rolling into the end zone for a touchdown. The call stood, and BYU led 7-0.\n\nFox's broadcast team of Connor Onion and Robert Griffin III turned to rules analyst Mike Pereira for an explanation, and even he seemed stumped. Pereira noted this wasn't a case where a runner stepping out of bounds gets continuing action, since the ball had already been recovered by a different player. Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham was visibly frustrated by the reversal, which came after BYU's loss to UCF the previous week. The sequence added to a string of head-scratching officiating moments involving Big 12 review crews this season.","published_at":"2026-10-31T23:05:12.791291+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Awful Announcing","publisher":"Awful Announcing","title":"Fox rules analyst Mike Pereira confounded by Big 12 officials over overturned BYU-ASU call","url":"https://awfulannouncing.com/college-football/fox-robert-griffin-iii-mike-pereira-big-12-officials-overturned-byu-asu-touchdown.html"},{"outlet":"Fox Sports","publisher":"Fox Sports","title":"Why BYU's Opening Touchdown vs. Arizona State Sparked Review And Debate","url":"https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/byu-touchdown-arizona-state-controversial-review-replay"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"‘Just making up rules as they go’: FOX broadcast crushes Big 12 referees","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/just-making-rules-fox-broadcast-210617979.html"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Another week, another BYU officiating controversy: 'Officials just making up rules'","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/another-week-another-byu-officiating-205021863.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Big 12 officials under fire for controversial BYU TD vs Arizona State","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/big-12-officials-under-fire-204324621.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Fox rules analyst Mike Pereira confounded by Big 12 officials over overturned BYU-ASU call","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/fox-rules-analyst-mike-pereira-230006218.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Bear Bachmeier throws for 236 yards and a touchdown as No. 8 BYU holds off Arizona State 27-20","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/bear-bachmeier-throws-236-yards-232914749.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://cdn1.thecomeback.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2026/10/AA-Correct-Size-2026-10-31T165218.620.jpg","credit":"Awful Announcing","width":1500},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}