John Mathias

Iowa City Athletic Officials Association - referee & nerd 🏈🏀🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🖖

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

RT @PeteThamel: Teams in flight limbo:
Big 12: Baylor, Kansas State, Utah and Arizona State
SEC: Ole Miss, Tennessee and Texas
ACC: All vi…

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

Not so “super” now, is it?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Q: Could this be AI related?

Mullin: We call it SI around here.

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

@Brett_Crawford Independent study most likely. Kinda like the Penn State wrestling missions. This stuff needs to be cleaned up.

[Carter Lowe @carterl0we]

Miami of Ohio receives an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty because the scoreboard operator put photos of field goal posts on the video board in order to confuse the Bobcats kicker

#MACtion

[Danny Kanell @dannykanell]

I'm so glad we have such a sacred regular season in college football where you can lose not once but TWICE and you can still be ranked ahead of a 9-0 team.

Like I've been telling you....you've been lied to for the past 75 years. The regular season matters to some but not all.

[Ryan Kearns @Ryan_kearns]

I was trying to figure out why this interview felt different and so worthwhile. Watching Ross Douthat’s 60 Minutes sit-down with Trump, it became clear: a robust theological worldview changes what’s possible.

When Douthat asked what happens when you die, Trump talked about how he hoped to be remembered. Douthat brought him back: What happens to you? Then he pressed him on heaven and whether he could forgive his enemies.

That exchange was more revealing than most of the moments that get clipped from political interviews.Too many in our national conversation operate with a reductionistic view that everything is just power, oppressed versus oppressor. When the interviewer is after a gotcha, both sides know their roles. One tries to land the question, the other gets defensive, and you leave knowing about as much as you did going in.

Douthat’s Christian worldview gave him more to ask about. If the person across from you has a soul and will one day answer to God, then what he loves, whom he’s willing to forgive, and how he thinks about his own death all say something about how he understands the power he has now. He could put Trump on the spot without turning it into a fight, and we got to hear more of how Trump actually thinks.
Worth watching.

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

The economic impact on a college town who has a team is ranked 16th vs. 17th will be quite significant.

[Nicole Auerbach @NicoleAuerbach]

This graphic explains how the seeding works and who gets home games in the new 24-team CFP. There will now be 16 postseason games on campus.

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

Kari Lake turned old enough to vote in the 1988 election when Iowa supported… Michael Dukakis. 🙄

[Kari Lake @KariLake]

No way in hell.

Iowa did not vote for communism because of gas prices (that were the same or less than under previous admin) or a war to end a nuclear threat (w/ no boots on the ground).

I know Iowa.
Iowa raised me.
Iowa educated me.

The math isn’t mathing here.
Let’s audit this election to make sure the results are honest before we hand over the Hawkeye state and America to Communists.

Do not certify until you VERIFY the vote.

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

Valpo WTF?!? ‼️

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

Aikman and Buck are like Simon and Garfunkel… please just find a way to get along because the music is too good.

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

Jeffery Simmons has arrived ‼️

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

@tjmcaulay I remember way back crowds used to be warned by the referee they could be subjected to a 15 yard penalty for being too loud while the quarterback was delivering his cadence (Harbaugh at Iowa during the Fry/Schembechler years, for example).

Thankfully that rule was changed.

[Brian Owens @BrianMOwens5]

Fire at Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids

Hope everyone is okay

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

@jtlinder Wish we could bring back some of those early round neutral Dome games.

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

Maybe we could just trust the human being standing directly under the upright? Just a thought.

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Virginia now has goalpost cameras facing straight up to get a better look at field goals, as seen on the ESPN broadcast. 🏈📹

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

@CydZeigler I feel like high school is the last level where you are actually allowed to officiate by applying the rules and a healthy dose of common sense.

Everything else involves a delicate dance among all sorts of weird influences.

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

Hate to hear this. Get better soon, Larry!

[ Fᴏᴏᴛʙᴀʟʟ Zᴇʙʀᴀs @footballzebras]

Football Zebras has unfortunately confirmed that Larry Smith, the umpire injured in yesterday's game in London, will be out for the rest of the 2026 season.
https://t.co/8o3k1DY9LH

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

@gaghyogi49 FYI, Data's desk is at the museum in Riverside, Iowa.

[John Mathias @johnmathias]

@RefObserver17 Could have had a TD with a blocked PAT with a scoop and score? 🤪🤷🏻‍♂️