Saturday’s 37-35 loss at East Carolina was a bitter pill for Old Dominion to swallow. And not just because ECU is the closest FBS school to ODU, or that the schools are recruiting rivals or that the loss dropped ODU to 1-4.
It was because in the final minutes, not only did the Monarchs miss numerous opportunities to put the Pirates away, they were on the wrong end of four close calls or no-calls by the officiating crew.
In case you’re a conspiracy theorist, it was a Conference USA officiating crew that called this game. ECU is a member of the American Athletic Conference.