Terrible Officials

Warning: This is a conspiracy theory but....

It seems like every game I watch, the team that benefits from the officiating is always the team that will boost the conference whose officials are working that game. This is something that I think about all the time but I am interested in other people's opinion. I just watched a terrible PI call in the WVU TCU game that led to a TCU touchdown. I'll surely be eating crow if WVU wins this game but I'm willing to take the risk.

Do you think that conferences actually tell their officials to give the benefit of the doubt to their top teams? Is it an unspoken rule? After all, they are employed by the conferences and it's bad for the conference to give WVU the benefit of the doubt over TCU because that may cause the Big12 to lose a playoff contender.

Also, I don't believe that box scores tell the full story of the officiating. It's not just about the total penalty yards, it's about when they occur situationally.

Does anyone actually think this a coincidence? Or am I completely alone in this thought?