Was this the same officiating crew that did the Vanderbilt game last year?

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These officials decided the game.

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Disagree

They got an inch on the sneak. Mason pass looked like grounding to me. He didnt even throw beyond the LOS and the closest receiver was at least 5 yards away. They gave UGA yards on personal foul calls. The Gurley headbutt specifically was called wrong and helped Georgia a lot, so that was even from my view.

I do agree with you that 35 should be enough and the D was bad.

Edit: there was holding on the called back TD run. I doubt the held player tackles Gurley, but he was held.

So the refs pushed their receivers into open spots all night? They must have blew really hard to make Morgans kicks miss too.

The refs didn't lose this game for us. Our defense should not have been putting us in positions where the refs had to decide if one inch would end the game.

Lineman just to the left of
Gurley, as he ran through the line, was holding. No idea the #

Gurley's non-call headbutt when he got stuffed on 3rd down and SCAR received a 15 yard penalty was a big call.

Should of least been offsetting

Let's be honest here. The guy freaked out and tossed it in the dirt.

Yep. That was intentional grounding. The list of excuses for the loss will be endless, but the simple fact is our defense failed from the first play to the last first down.
The only bright spot is that our defense will likely improve each week and if we do make it to the SECCG it will probably be very good.
But I think Mizzou might have the best shot to win the East.

The loss was definitely on the defense and the playcalling of the last offensive series. We had every chance to win.

The 4th down spot coulda gone the other way but it was so hard to tell, and they always just give it to the offense if it is close and they only needed inches.

I actually disagreed with the grounding call. If it didn't hit their defender in the leg that ball would have ended up really close to our back out on that play. It was the same situation as the screen pass that doesn't fool anyone and they throw it at their feet. But he never should have been in that situation.

The holding call on the 2nd quarter Gurley TD hurt. i really didn't think it was holding. If that was holding they should have called it on about 80% of the snaps. Not sure why they decided to call it there and not at other moments. But we had every chance to win that game regardless, didn't do it.

The secondary just is not very talented. Not sure any of those guys would start on other SEC teams. I'm hoping they continue to improve but there just isn't much talent to work with. We need that front 7 to provide constant pressure for them and last night they couldn't so the secondary got exposed. That will be our biggest issue all season.

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Edit: there was holding on the called back TD run. I doubt the held player tackles Gurley, but he was held.

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I agree with all of your post except this....there was less holding on that play than half a dozen others when their oline was picking up our blitzes.

The last spot, the ref placed his foot on the USC side of the 50 and then placed the ball on the other side. I am not sure how that will be not protested. I have never seen anything like that in such a critical time.

The PI call on our 1st INT was a call that could be made, but USC clearly pushed off on their 1st TD. It seems like they were letting them play until that int. That call was enormous in momentum change.

The TD call back on the hold I really didnt see holding, but that was another call they made that was a huge momentum change. In the mean time, USC had plenty of holds that could have been called on them and were not. The lack of effective pass rush was the epicenter of our issues on defense.

Even though the refs made huge calls on 3 plays that could have gone the other way, UGA was still in a spot to win and did not and that is the most disappointing part....