Targeting may very well be the hot button issue in college football this season, and in no conference has it been more of a source of debate than in the Pac-12.
The conference and its officials have been under fire at various times throughout the year for questionable targeting calls and/or no calls.
The most famous of those was the Porter Gustin no call during the USC-Washington State game.
Porter Gustin missed the 1st half tonight due to targeting in the last game... and now he's doing this?? pic.twitter.com/RMym4s5rZA
— CFB Gif'er (@CFBgifer) September 22, 2018
Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott commented on that hit and the subsequent ruling afterward, telling the Associated Press "you can certainly assume that play got a lot of looks, not just from the replay booth at the stadium, but we've got our command center back in San Francisco with our head of officiating and a bunch of experienced replay guys, who absolutely would have looked at that play… As you know, in any given game there are a lot of close calls, and this was a very, very close one.