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SEC Releases Statement On What Happened At The End Of Iron Bowl 1st Half

by Larry Leo

December 4, 201966 Comments

The SEC has explained the reasoning behind the clock management before halftime of Saturday's Iron Bowl. The play in question was when they added one second to the clock which led to an Auburn field goal at the end of the half. The SEC's statement sent to AL.com...

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“At the end of the 1st half in the Alabama vs Auburn game, during a play that resulted in a first down inbounds, the game clock went to 0:00. Replay stopped the game to review the clock. The decision from the Instant Replay Official was that video evidence showed there was 1 second on the clock when the player was down so the clock operator was instructed to put 1 second back on the game clock. The referee came back out to the line of scrimmage and informed both teams that the clock would start on the ready for play. The referee got back in position and blew his whistle and wound the clock. The snap was off before the clock went to 0:00.”

(The Spun)

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Bayoubred•53 months

Did they explain how Patrick Peterson was out of bounds on that interception?

DoubleDown•53 months

Or how that wouldn't have mattered cause your offense that day only mustered up like 19 total yards?

root canal•53 months

Peterson intercepted around the 40 if the mid 4th q with LSU down 6 points. We may not have scored again, but I would have liked to try.

BobABooey•53 months

Did the SEC Office release a statement that explained why the officials stopped Tennessee from running a play from the wildcat formation while the confused Alabama defense got prepared?

TexasTiger89•53 months

See how it feels Gumps? What comes around, goes around.

imjustafatkid•53 months

We've been telling y'all for years that it isn't slanted toward Bama. SEC refs are just bad. Congrats on realizing we're right.

TaderSalad•53 months

Gumps still had an entire 2nd half to win the game and couldn't. shite happens

DoubleDown•53 months

I agree. It's like when Saints fans bitch about the no call. Drew Brees threw a pick in OT. shite happens.

Pauldean•53 months

Can anyone explain how Auburn gets this play off we one second left, but we don't at Auburn in 2016?

Godfather1•53 months

In retrospect, be glad it went down the way it did.

Indiana Tiger•53 months

Auburn knew where the ball would be placed and the TO gave them time to be set and snap the ball at the whistle. In 2016 the penalty and confusion didn't give LSU the same advantage.

NYCAuburn•53 months

Auburn was set ready to go, where the LSU was running around and not ready. simple as that

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EasterEgg•53 months

It's convenient how nearly the same scenario went the other way in their 2016 LSU game.

EvrybodysAllAmerican•53 months

OK, now explain why LSU couldn't get a play off in 1 second vs Auburn in Les Miles' last game.

EvrybodysAllAmerican•53 months

im not being sarcastic. What was the difference? Cant recall the circumstances of the LSU game, if it was after a first down or something. I just know both were at Auburn, and both were 1 second plays.

narddogg81•53 months

SEC office needs to explain why they let Auburn substitute kicking team, placed the ball, got the centers hand on the ball, etc etc before restarting the clock. Clock should have started again the instant the ref placed the ball like on any other first down play. The clock only stops on first down so the officials can move the chains, if they had called it a first down in the first place and the normal procedure had followed there was zero chance auburn could have gotten the kicking team in, lined up, and gotten a kick off.

imjustafatkid•53 months

Had they run the play the way you mention, Auburn wouldn't have had the time to run ANYTHING.

Tri City Tigers•53 months

It was an officials timeout. The clock starts when they blow the whistle.

atltiger6487•53 months

that's a loophole in the replay rule. They need to either have a clock runoff, or require that the players stay on the field, at the prior line of scrimmage until the refs whistles the ball ready for play after the review. The current rule gave Auburn a free timeout and a free substitution to get the FG unit on the field and ready for the snap.

biglego•53 months

I’m still awaiting the SEC to explain the officiating in the LSU-Auburn 2006 game.

tylercsbn9•53 months

I hate Bama but they got screwed. Plain and simple. Had they stopped with one second left there is no way Auburn would gave been able to get the kick off.

Tri City Tigers•53 months

Alabama wasn't screwed. It was an unlucky break that went in Auburn's favor.

imjustafatkid•53 months

This is a terrible take from the SEC. They should have simply apologized for the way it was handled. No one outside of homers on this website thought that was handled appropriately.

jawnybnsc•53 months

It was handled by rule.

Happygilmore•53 months

isnt the rule in the nfl that if a review is made inside of a minute and the clock would have been moving there is a 10 second run off. seems like that rule can be applied to college

Hoops•53 months

Clock doesn’t stop for a first down in the nfl

crewdepoo•53 months

In reality, if they subbed their kicker in, the other team would be awarded time to substitute. Which would take at over one second

jawnybnsc•53 months

Maybe it can.

brett408•53 months

The Auburn clock operator is either very incompetent or a genius

Strannix•53 months

Saban got the Alabama big bubba cellmate treatment from Short Bus Gus once again, I’m glad O doesn’t lose to that clown. Game has passed Nick by, sad.

Tigerstark•53 months

It’s by the rules as they currently exist but in future situations similar to this the rule needs to be no substitutions on either side or something similar because there is zero chance Auburn gets another snap off without the review. That being said - kudos to auburn for being well coached and getting it off.

WorkinDawg•53 months

I don’t have a Dawg in this fight, but Bama got jobbed. It’s ridiculous for replay (who’s sole purpose in life is to “get the call right”) to create a scenario where getting it right actually makes it wrong. Refs shoulda left it alone given that AU was out of timeouts.

jawnybnsc•53 months

There is some sense in arguing that the refs could/should have used discretion and not called for the replay. But that's not what they did. They called for the replay and everything else that followed was done by the book.

Crimson1st•53 months

I know the opinion of how this played out will be slanted here on an LSU heavy board, but it this had happened to favor Bama(not that our kicker could hit a damned fg to save his life) and jobbed LSU...this place would be ready for heads to roll. If we're being intellectually honest, you know this is the case. The way that Auburn gained an advantage for a game deciding three points they otherwise would not have had just isn't right.

CarlTech•53 months

Wow, such presumptuous justification cloaked in reasonableness. A questionable call goes against the tiders, it's Wednesday and they are still melting. Displays your entitlement syndrome.

Crimson1st•53 months

No, it displays that I am speaking factually about the game and how it was altered to give one team an inappropriate opportunity for three points that decided the outcome of the game. The reason it is "cloaked in reasonableness" is that what I am saying is reasonable. I try to be fair as a football fan in general and I would have called this out as crap even if it was Bama that had benefited.

dehsloot•53 months

The facts are: you lost. Get over it.

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3down10•53 months

Why did the clock start on the snap instead of when the ref placed the ball as it normally would on a 1st down? Because there is no way in the world a ref placed the ball and got out of the way in time for a snap in 1 second.

PEPE•53 months

They are just stating what happened. We all know what happened. They are not addressing the actual issue. By ruling the clock ran out, they actually helped Auburn, the stoppage and replay was just in effect a free timeout for them, allowing them to run the play when they obviously never would have otherwise.

DoubleDown•53 months

I believe that this virtually and literally gave Auburn an extra timeout they did not have. Therefore, 1 of 2 things should happen in this instance. 1) Be like the NFL and rule that their should be a 10 second runoff in this instance -OR- 2) Make them enforce that the same offense remain on the field for the 1 second, which still gives auburn a chance at a hail mary (still giving them an extra timeout).

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