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Daily Brews: Ref from 2016 “JT Was Short” game defends controversial decision.

The memory lives on among Michigan fans, even now, four years later. JT was short.

The note, of course, refers to a fourth-and-1, double overtime play in which then Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett was ruled to have gotten a first down on a quarterback keeper. Michigan fans to this day say he was short, hence the #JTwasshort hashtag.

Of course, the ruling said otherwise, and Ohio State scored the game-winning touchdown a play later. Such is life as Michigan fans in that rivalry.

But according to one of the officials in the game, speaking now that he has retired after a 20-year career, the real problem is that the network carrying the game did not show a good view of the replay that he claims would have shown Barrett did in fact make the marker.