re: Dabo Swinney is a petulant child and I'm glad he lost

I am Bama through and through but I can understand his frustration on those two points of contention. The clock did wind off two seconds after the first down completion and then started running again before the ball was spotted.

The other point about the kick and catch was already explained by another poster.

At any rate, as you mentioned, officiating is always going to have some iffy calls in any sport, and you just have to work around it.

I didn't think they should have called PI on Bama in the 1st qtr and I think they should have called PI on Clemson on a play later in game (guy was pulling down on Bama players jersey in end zone as he was trying to catch it, announcers even mentioned it), but whatever, it happens. I'd rather let them fight for the ball than call PI on every questionable instance of it.