Welcome back to Three Downs & Punt, your Monday guide to all the college football stuff you might have missed during the weekend.
Before we get started, a quick shout-out to all the Michigan fans who filled my e-mail inbox with "You are a moron for writing on Friday that we would lose to Connecticut" messages. Yes, Big Blue, you were right and I was wrong. And the new digs look great. When I was there for the Notre Dame game three years ago, I accused your athletic director of stealing the press box from Vanderbilt.
Now, everyone go "Oooooooh" as I kick off this week's edition.
First down: The zebra report
The complaint department
After the botched "No, it's not really a touchdown, but the signal sure looked like it!" event that closed out the first half of Thursday night's USC-Hawaii game, I received a few questions from readers of last week's first edition of the zebra report asking about the process that coaches use to file complaints about officiating.
Here goes ...
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Ryan McGee
Ryan McGee is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. While you may know him for his extensive and very popular NASCAR coverage on this site and television, he's also been a constant in the Mag's coverage of college football. Why? Well, to wit:
• He started working in college athletic departments at 16 (Furman, Tennessee). Got his first sideline pass (UNC @ Virginia) when he was 12 and was totally run over by Tar Heels LB Micah Moon.
• His father was a college football official for 36 years (FBS 1981-2009), working 20 bowl games and two national championships.
• Ryan's a member of the FWAA (Football Writers Association of America).
• He's covered college football for ESPN The Magazine for the last five years.
• He's all over college sports -- Ryan authored "The Road To Omaha: Hits, Hopes and History at the College World Series."
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