Penn State Football: 5 overreactions from win over Iowa

4. The officials stole Grant Haley’s sixth career interception

I hope senior cornerback Grant Haley took a trip to the Iowa City police station following Penn State’s Week 4 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes, because the officials absolutely robbed him of his sixth career interception.

In the second half, Iowa quarterback Nathan Stanley threw a high pass to his inside receiver, who instead of pulling the pass in for a catch, inexplicably decided to bumped the ball into the air like a volleyball player.

Even though Haley was up the field on the Iowa outside receiver, he saw the play unfold and flew in to the pass, making a diving catch in impressive fashion.

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The ball landed in Haley’s hands and he completed the catch in what would have been his third interception of the season, and the sixth of his impressive Penn State career, but after further review it was determined that the ground aided in the cornerback’s catch, and the call on the field was overturned to an incomplete pass.

This was a total homer call.

The original call on the field was an interception, and there definitely wasn’t enough video evidence to overturn the call on the field, and yet they did.

A turnover so close to the Hawkeyes’ endzone would have bred disaster for Iowa’s chances of winning the game, and such a big momentum swing should not have been decided by the officially in replay.

At only 5-foot-9, Haley has to try even harder to match up against opposing receivers than his 6-foot tall counterparts, and in Penn State’s Week 4 victory over Iowa, that effort was not rewarded