Seemingly every week, Pac-12 officials drew the ire of fans on any given side. And this wasn’t your standard “home team thinks the call against them is wrong” heckling officials can generally expect from crowds. This was earned.

The Pac-12 has been the butt of the joke a number of times this season, be it because of a controversial call or a highly visible blunder. There was the crew in Pullman forgetting what down it was. There were the roughing calls in Salt Lake City. There was the end-of-half clock fiasco in Tucson. There was the awful spot in Corvallis. There were too many mistakes to keep track of in the Washington-Oregon State game. It’s a weekly adventure to determine how targeting will be adjudicated.

No one is happy with the state of Pac-12 officiating, not even the league’s leading man.

Speaking with media ahead of the 2022 Pac-12 Championship game, league commissioner George Kliavkoff said the mistakes this season were “unacceptable.”

“With respect to procedural mistakes, we had a few this year,” Kliavkoff said. “And candidly, those are just unacceptable. For example, early in the season in one of our games, one of our crews lost count of downs. These kinds of mistakes, we’re not going to stand for. They’re inexcusable. When these happen, crews are downgraded and they lose further work opportunities.”

Kliavkoff did differentiate between procedural and judgment calls. He stated the league stands behind those made that fell into the latter camp.

Merton Hanks, the league’s executive associate commissioner for football operations, added that the Pac-12 “will be aggressive” in rectifying the officiating issue going forward.