re: Relive the entire absurdity of the Georgia @ Texas penalty, trashrain, and reversal

Is Texas now the SEC's new favorite child? How on earth was that allowed to happen and they only get hit with a nominal fine? That shite doesn't even happen at Bama.

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2000 lsu Alabama before any replay. LSU recovered and the officials marked the ball for play first down Alabama. We just that year installed the Jumbotrons. The officials took a peek and changed the call.

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Oh I was there. They never made a call who had the ball. Both offenses and defenses were on the field waiting for the refs to figure it out

The refs simply forgot. It wasn't even controversial to anyone watching. There was a play where an Alabama defender who was blocked into Domanick Davis on a punt return. Punt was muffed, LSU immediately recovered, handed the ball back to the refs. The refs were so concerned about whether it was interference on the return that none of them paid attention as to who recovered the ball. But yeah, they totally looked up at the jumbotron to make the call they did.

This happened at LSU in Nick Saban's first year. Bama punted the ball to LSU and downed the ball and acted like LSU touched it and gave BAMA the ball and a first down.

The stadium was about to empty onto the field and beat them to death. I kid you not. The stadium had a large TV that was in the south end zone and the refs huddled, pretending not to look at the replays.

They figured out that it was a horrible mistake and gave the ball to LSU. If they had not done so, I think there would have been a riot. So this is nothing new to me.

All arse, So fake...

Cook Em!

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Was it really?

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Yes, most people understand that.

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Hogs absolutely hate us and their fans are fine, as are ours to them.

Maybe it's just y'all that suck...

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I was selling beer behind the LSU section Saturday and to a man they were awesome fans.

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but I do get the feeling they wanted to keep it competitive. A blowout in a matchup like that wasn't good for business

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The only business the ref was thinking about was his business that he runs in North Texas that would have lost customers if he didn’t overturn that call. That guy should be fired or at the very least not allowed near any game involving tu.

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You aren't in the minority, but to me it looked like the defender planted his ground in front of the receiver, forced the WR to lose position, while defender cut for the ball.

Pretty cool, if you can get away with it.

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Yep Arian even said in the presser he had a handful of his jersey

This was obvious OPI...I was shocked when it happened...told a buddy that we are going to start seeing WR's do this more often to draw the PI

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1) 2 players ejected for making form tackles
2) Etienne being marked short on an obvious first down.
3) Etienne being marked short on obvious touchdown
4) Following that play the ref spotted the ball on the qb sneak almost before
the play was over and there was no review. I'm pretty sure Beck crossed
the goal line. Regardless one would think the booth would have at least
looked at it. THAT didn't happen.

It was so obvious the refs were trying to throw this game it was almost comical. 58 years old and it's the first time I've really thought the refs were bought.

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I don't like the rule, but I thought all 3 could have been called targeting. The player lowered the crown of his helmet on each of the plays. There was one called on the field.. one initiated by the booth.. and one not called, but they were all pretty close to each other on the game clock. The two that GA was penalized for were both reviewed by the booth.

I thought Etienne scored, but maybe the booth had a different angle than I saw on TV. This was reviewed by the booth.

I thought Etienne on the sideline was close, but I don't think there was a definitive angle on the field to see exactly where it crossed when he went out of bounds. This play was reviewed by the booth.

The QB sneak looked short to me, but we didn't get many angles of the play. This play was not reviewed by the booth.

If you believe the refs were trying to give Texas the game, then I would assume you think the booth was also in on the action.
Almost every single play you listed was reviewed by the booth. If it was complete bullshite, wouldn't they have reversed at least one of the calls?

In addition, why didn't Georgia get called for one holding play all day? Not one. A holding call can be called on pretty much every play in every game.. It's a matter of judgement. But for them to not even call one? On top of that, the only 2 holding calls all day came against Texas.. Imo, that's a pretty big tell that they weren't trying to give Texas the game.

At the end of the day, I hate that this discussion even has to take place. The fact that you or any fan feels that strongly about the refs throwing a game, well it just sucks. I'm not saying you don't have an argument or that you don't feel the way you feel, but I also don't know how to fix it.