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A Day With The BCS Refs

By Ryan McGee

Friday, January 9, 2009

[ESPN The Magazine senior writer Ryan McGee's father worked the BCS Title game as a referee last night. We chronicled his final season as a ref in a recent issue. For the title game between Oklahoma and Florida, we were allowed to tag along.] When the officiating crew for the 2009 BCS Championship arrived in sunny Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday afternoon, the reaction was the same from the umpire to the line judge to the instant replay official. Well now, this clearly isn't a run-of-the-mill bal ...

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