Time for college football to move toward automated officiating oversight?

[Steamboat Willie]

Every week we see games swing on bad spots, missed holds, mystery DPI, clock screwups, and “after further review… who knows?” moments. Meanwhile the sport is worth billions, the technology clearly exists, and other leagues are already using versions of this stuff.

I’m not talking about replacing refs with robots. More like:

Real-time ball/line tracking

AI flagging obvious misses for review

A centralized oversight room that standardizes rulings

Automated clock/spot corrections

Data-based grading for ref crews

Basically, give officials the tools to stop human error from dictating outcomes.

[Lock n Horns]

I had this exact same thought last week.  I get real time feedback when I’m screwing up at my job. If a crew is consistently missing holding calls they should be told so by the “centralized oversight room” during the game. Maybe at the end of each quarter some feedback. 

[Aspann85]

They need to figure out a way to have obvious calls be able to be called from the booth on things like PI or blatant holds that the SEC refs like to pretend don’t take place.