Really pleased with the officiating crew

I agree the officiating wasn't an issue but we had a lot more penalties than Bama did:
Penalties: Georgia 7-80 Alabama 1-5
And those penalties on Demello Jones led to Bama's only TD.

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Unsportsmanlike conduct call on Jones was a joke

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Explain

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Refs were as bad as they normally are against these guys.

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This must be the first game against them you've watched

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you believe that Alabama played that entire SECCG and only committed one infraction?

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Obviously not, duh. I have never once claimed it was outstanding officiating. I have simply said we didn't get fricked on calls like teams normally do against them.

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UGA got fricked on the no-calls

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So did bama, as mentioned. There were two 15 yarders (one that's called more often than not and one that 100% should have been called) on us that they held the whistle.

If y'all think the officiating in this game was bad and biased against us I truly don't know how you even manage to make it though other games when we ACTUALLY do get fricked by the refs.

Two guys away from the play chirping. Bama dude head butts our guy and he responds.

Call it off setting or give them a warning. A bail out 15 yard penalty is chicken shite.

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This must be the first game against them you've watched

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The losers who like to throw shite out like this are so fricking lame. ITdawg does the same shite in the basketball thread.

Yeah man, this is my first year supporting my alma maters football team. Yay sports ball!

It feels different to you because we overcame the bad calls. In years past these bad calls would be highlighted even more because the games were close.

Doesn't change the fact that the refs were god awful and biased towards Bama

Reviewing that offensive face mask call I saw the defender had a finger hooked in the WRs face mask. Should have been offsetting penalties.

Alabama's two games against Georgia this year were two of their least penalized games going back a decade. Twenty yards in two games, vs 150 for Georgia. If you throw out those two games, the two teams were almost identical in penalty yards per game against their other 7 SEC opponents (SEC data only to remove other conference officials.)

It's not complaining to notice a statistical outlier that's very unlikely to be a random event. I don't look at team penalties so much, because some teams play more aggressively than others and probably deserve more. I look at two things; deviations from the norm and opponent penalties. If opponent penalties are skewed over time, that's very likely officiating, because they should always trend toward the average as the dataset reaches statistically relevant number of observations.

Georgia's opponent penalties in SEC play were 13 out of 16 teams this year. Here are the numbers during Kirby's tenure at UGA.

Higher ranking means fewer opponent penalty yards

2016 10th out of 14 teams.
2017 14th out of 14 teams
2018 14th out of 14 teams
2019 11th out of 14 teams
2020 12th out of 14 teams
2021 8th out of 14 teams
2022 12th out of 14 teams
2023 13th out of 14 teams
2024 12th out 16 teams
2025 13th out of 16 teams

Notice that the median and average rank for all teams is 7.7 (7.5 during the 14 team years, 8.5 during 16 team years). Georgia's average is about 12th for that 10 year period. That's a massive statistical anomaly involving almost 90 opposing Georgia opponents taken cumulatively over 10 years. It's extremely unlikely to be a random outlier. If anything, you might expect Georgia's opponents to commit more penalties than the average, because they're losing and willing to push the envelope on rules. If Georgia's defense has their offense stymied, you'd expect them to commit more holding. I actually collected that data for a couple of years, and teams were called for less holding against Georgia's defense than their season average. And a fair percentage of those calls were during garbage time.

So, why does it appear that Georgia's opponents are on their best behavior year after year? I know why, because I rewatch the games and I watch teams hold, commit pass interference, grab face mask, rough the passer, etc., and get away with it more than Georgia does. As a result, Georgia plays cleaner football than our opponents, because we have to. And other teams take advantage of that by committing even more uncalled penalties, because they can.

Last night was just a continuation of that trend. A very obvious continuation. I make it through the games just fine, but I notice the obvious bias of SEC officiating.

In case you're wondering about Georgia's penalty rankings (SEC games only) during those 10 years:

Higher ranking means more Georgia penalty yards

2016 9th
2017 12th
2018 11th
2019 6th
2020 12th
2021 4th
2022 2nd
2023 2nd
2024 10th
2025 5th

Georgia's average penalty yardage rank for the 10 years is 7.3, or about average for the league (average league rank combining both 14 and 16 team years was 7.7) over those 10 years.

Georgia did the the things that made sure the officiating was not a major factor and I'm not losing any sleep over it. But with a well officiated game, the score could have been 35-0 or worse.