re: September 9th the Eyes of Texas will be on the officiating crew in Tuscaloosa

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Like the holding they didn't call against tu in the Kansas game in 04? Or the mysterious unsportsmanlike conduct against A&M in 11 to keep the game winning drive? And that one was called by a tu grad.

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There are a bunch of those calls through the years in the Big XII. ISU and Oklahoma State literally had fumble calls go against them that would have been game ending wins for them. Of course, Texas has their own calls to whine and cry about. Usually some random thing that happened in the middle of a game. Not a back breaker at the end of a game.

It will be interesting to see how Texas does in a league in which the bulk of the officials aren't from Texas.

For a while in the Big XII we had guys heading crews that were Texas grads who lived in Austin calling Texas games routinely.

I'll be glad to go to SEC officiating for that reason alone. It was always frustrating to get a ridiculous call go against you by a Texas based official... realizing that if he made that same call against the Texas based team he would likely have his house torched or something.

I don't mind having homer officials on occasion but in the Big XII it was routine.