The ACC announced Sunday it has suspended the on-field officiating crew as well as the replay official and communicator for two games following errors on the final wild play that gave Miami a 30-27 win over Duke on Saturday.
The outcome of the game cannot be changed, but Duke coach David Cutcliffe said later Sunday that maybe it’s time for that to change as the Blue Devils (6-2, 3-1) fell out of a potential tie for the lead in the ACC’s Coastal Division.
The ACC acknowledged a series of errors during the play, which featured eight laterals off a Duke kickoff and ended with a 91-yard touchdown run by the Hurricanes’ Corn Elder.
“Unfortunately there is no mechanism that I know of in place to reverse an outcome of a game. I do believe there should be,” Cutcliffe said Sunday. “If we’re going to use instant replay … All this occurred after everything had happened on the field. What instant replay is in place for is to get it right, and we did not get it right. I’m venting a little bit still. I hurt badly for our players.”
