In fact, I quit watching this game because the refereeing was so blatantly one-sided, and so disruptive, as to destroy any semblance of flow and rhythm this game might have otherwise had, that is was unwatchable.
Sadly, this is the case more often than not during the non-league part of the season. When a mid-major visits a BCS league squad, the refs usually are culled from the cadre of officials who work games in said BCS conference. Believe me, that was not a MAC, Ohio Valley, Big Ten, Atlantic 10, or Horizon League crew working the Akron-Pitt game. It was a straight-up Big East crew that probably does about 12 Pitt games a season. And it showed
