There has been a lot of talk recently about why the referee made the wrong call to penalize Washington for celebrating by throwing the ball up in the air.

Now, I am not a BYU or Washington fan. In fact, I kind of like Washington because of Ty Willingham. However, I believe the referee made the correct call.

It clearly states in the NCAA rules that a team must be penalized 15 yards if the show up another team or draw attention to themselves. I don't think he did either of those things, but it clearly gives an example in the NCAA rules of types of things that this rule should cover. One of those (letter c) is throwing the ball up into the air.

Therefore, because it gives a clear example of what not to do, I believe that, even though it is a dumb rule, that it was the correct call.