re: Worst Officials of All Time

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Poor officiating affects ALL games. Look at the the missed calls in the Georgia v. Oklahoma game.

But y'all won that one. The winner of a game will never complain about officiating...only the loser.

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The Oklahoma game was an example of a game where at least the officials swallowed the flags for both teams... The officials at least were semi-consistent. They let the DBs for both teams play physically, there wasn't a penalty called on Oklahoma until there was a minute remaining in the fourth quarter, even though their OL held on nearly every play and their WRs were allowed to start blocking downfield before the ball was even thrown routinely. Not worth going back to show videos of this, because as I said... none of it changes anything.

ETA: Example of me calling it out after the win (and others discussing it in the thread) - LINK

But if you think the Alabama/UGA game and the Oklahoma/UGA game were somehow in the same ballpark of balanced officiating, I don't know how to help you. I will 100% admit that I will have a bias here, and I was watching in person, so did not have the luxury of running my own replay booth on the DVR... but fortunately enough, the internet does a pretty good job of covering it for me... and every time an Alabama says "but what about [insert play]", videos are notably absent, or it's on a subjective play where we could then grab 5-10 examples of the same style of play being allowed. We're not even primarily talking about subjective things like PI/holding where there is a "let them play" aspect to it... a false start is a false start... someone who didn't end up in the neutral zone prior to the snap is not offsides...

I've made my peace with the outcome of the game... I just find it amusing that many Alabama fans aren't willing to accept that they had some assistance... personally I'd fricking relish it... particularly after how the game went last year against Clemson. Just weird...