does that really matter? incompetence is not limited to conference, and if you're suggesting that conference referees give home cooking to teams from their own conference, then that should be a pretty damn big scandal. The refs were far from incompetent tonight. They called a very good game. It was a close call, but the linesman had pretty clearly ruled the play dead before the ball got to the goal line. The point about it being Pac-12 refs is they weren't biased for ND.