re: Lets talk penalties in the SEC over the last decade. Do refs really play favorites?

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The quality of the penalty is what really matters. How many big plays do bad calls remove? How often is momentum disrupted by bad calls?

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Bama fans dont want you to look into this. Watching the national championship game says all I need to know. Bama could have had twice the penalties and ypp as Georgia but it will never change the fact that at the most crucial points in the game Bama was given every benefit of the doubt with officiating and won.

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This is a very true statement brother. Perhaps the SEC officials favor Arkansas by not extending its opponents drives during crucial 3rd downs....

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The refs didn't need to. Our defense was more than generous on 3rd down. 1st and 2nd down as well. Our opponents probably would have lost yards to accept the penalty.

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things like this:

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this makes me sick. i can't stand to see this happen in a sport that i love. there is no excuse for that ref doing that and it's shady as hell.

i've asked this question before and didn't get any grown up responses. when i see this clip and the one of the ref moving the ball to the bama first down marker and refgate (you should know what this is) and this abomination



it seems clear to me that there are questionable things going on. so my question is, why even go? if you know in advance that shady things are going to happen that are outside of the control of the teams, it's not a competition. it's rigged, loosely scripted entertainment. why do we bother going to the games if we know the outcome is possibly, perhaps even likely, predetermined? i don't want to see this happen even if my team benefits. do you go just hoping that you won't notice or that perhaps it won't happen and that particular game will be fairly decided?