re: Refs

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Bama’s line was holding all night

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I had a thread about this earlier today but not sure where it went. The "College Football Nerds" YouTube channel is really highlighting this in their post game analysis. There's a Bleacher Rant article about the Bama win and in the photo used for the article intending to show a BY hero QB shot Nolan Smith is in the background and is clearly being held by his jersey and his wrist.

With BY's elite release speed, holding on the OL gives him a HUGE advantage, especially with those elite WRs. It's as if someone realized that simply not calling holding in the trenches equalizes our DL vs their OL and allows them to carve up our secondary.