Most LSU fans, me included do not think the refs caused LSU to lose the game. I have been on record stating since 2007 since Saban got there, other than the 2009 Peterson INT game and the 2014 game in Baton Rouge, the officiating has been fair (and I am talking about only certain calls in those games for the record).

I don't think Turners hit was a dirty play nor did Saban do a bounty gate or order code red. For years films about those types of hits were part of NFL films (go look at old the late Dick Butkus clips or Lawrence Taylor). Do I think under current rules it was targeting, perhaps but not a dirty play. It was a football play.

So what LSU should do is privately talk to the league office and get a review. And just let the SEC office know that how this game was officiated needs to be how next years is officiated.

No LSU fan needs to threaten the league office or protest the league office or go after opposing players who are the ones taking risk playing a physical game or go after opposing teams fans when they come to game here even if they are fans of schools that represent states that one might dislike, which in my case are Alabama and Ole Miss and I am sure some people feel that way about Louisiana and LSU. That is ok as well, that is why there are 50 states in the Union, as long as people are civil and respect that everybody does not have to agree with everyone else and everybody does not have to like everybody else.

This post was edited on 11/5/23 at 11:14 am