re: Worst Officiating in an SEC Game?

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Worst one involving an SEC team, Florida vs Iowa 2006 Outback Bowl

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If we are going that route, that doesn't come anywhere close to 2003 UF-FSU - The Swindle in the Swamp. The entire game was impacted right from the start.

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Kirk Herbstreit: I don't know where you live but everywhere I have turned this week, Jeremy Foley the AD at Florida and Dave Hart the AD at FSU have been quoted since the end of that game. Every national analyst and talking head from one time to another has had an opinion about how horribly officiated that game was. We can't go back and change the 5 or 6 blown calls that affected the outcome of that game. I said after the game Sat. night that was the best game in college football this year, but unfortunately it was also the worst officiated game I have seen all year. I don't know if I can ever recall so many game-changing blown calls. If you are a Florida fan, I feel for you .. but at this point, I don't know if anything can be done.

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Mike Lopresti of USA today : "The ACC head of officiating said Sunday he will study the tape. Just like bank officials do after a robbery."

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Stewart Mandel of SI : "I've always made fun of the NFL's clunky instant-replay system, which delays the game a good 10 minutes every time a coach decides to throw his silly flag, which most of the time seems to come on a play he's got almost no chance of reversing. Therefore, as you can probably guess, I've always scoffed at the idea of instant replay in college. Let the kids decide the game on the field. However, the officiating in Saturday's Florida State-Florida game was so overwhelmingly bad, so costly to one of the participants, that I can't help but rethink my stance. Normally bad calls have a way of evening themselves out over the course of a contest, but not this time.

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Lee Corso interviewed 12/11 on how ACC Refs prove we need instant replay: "They need to have instant replay in the Sugar Bowl this year. After seeing what happened in the Florida State-Florida game, we cannot afford to have incompetency be a part of the national championship game.

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Miami Herald: There is no instant replay in college football, so Florida had to accept each call. Had the five calls gone the other way, Florida likely would have won in a rout. Two of the Seminoles' fumbles occurred just before they scored touchdowns (14 points), and a Florida fumble was recovered and returned for a score (seven points). Subtract 21 points and FSU is left with 17 points. Also, the Gators were in a position to return two fumbles for touchdowns (14 points), and a third would have given them field position to kick a field goal (three points). Add 17 points to UF's total, and the final score would have been Florida 51, Florida State 17.

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