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I'm certain it's just my imagination, but it seems that conference officials favor the better teams in the league to protect their status for the playoff selection.

We don't need conference officials anymore with conferences stretching from coast to coast and border to border. It would be better if officials were national in scope and not paid by a conference.

This MIGHT eliminate some of the incredibly bad calls (even with replay) and the apparent bias which rears its ugly head in seemingly every game.

The alleged face mask call against Josh Burnam was as bad as any, and was made by an official who could not have seem the infraction as the QB was surrounded by at least 3 ND defenders. Instead of turnover on downs, BC goes on to kick a field goal.

Eliminate the conference bias, and at least then we are down to simply inept officials. No doubt, it's a challenging job; however, with the money involved in winning, you can't let officials determine who wins and who loses.