It was more of the same. Auburn got hosed by terrible officiating (not just calls) again, then everybody in the world besides Georgia fans agreed with it to the point that they were wanting the officials investigated, then Auburn lost a close game to another Top 10 team, then people conveniently forgot the game-changing officiating they were raging about an hour before and wanted everybody in Auburn fired.
Once again, the tough guys, who were all up in arms demanding that Auburn take every fine imaginable by complaining about the refs, turned it all around and put it back on the Tigers that they were just claiming were victims.
You do not look like a real man because you eventually say that good teams should overcome bad officiating. Did Georgia overcome bad officiating? No, they fed off of it.
Note: if the game review is all about officiating, and you aren’t a Georgia fan and were going crazy about officiating all during halftime, you don’t get to now say that officiating had nothing to do with the loss.
What we saw on the non-fumble was 3-4 guys run in to the pile having no clue the ball was being run down the field, and eventually agreed to call it a fumble, knowing it would be reviewed. This isn’t random. They have been taught this. There’s some sort of logic behind it. Pick this outcome knowing it will be reviewed so that this outcome will only occur with absolute indisputable evidence.
If they said that Jackson Arnold scored, or just didn’t fumble, there is no way they would’ve been able to overturn it. Wait, they did that in the Oklahoma game. Nevermind.
On the clap thing, it doesn’t really, truly matter to the outcome of the game, but it does show you what officials subconsciously think about Kirby Smart. He’s the longest tenured coach in the SEC and has had very recent success. They gave him the benefit of the doubt even over the home field coach.
Think about it. Auburn is playing at home with 80,000 people all screaming the same thing at least 3-4 times and the officials went against it in every case, specifically giving Kirby and Georgia a freebie pseudo-timeout.
Have you ever seen an official call timeout, a coach argue his way out of it, and all they did was just reset the play clock and do it all over again? Georgia was struggling to get the play in and the ball snapped and instead the officials let them just completely start over and get it off in time.
It never happens, but it happened in Auburn on Saturday night.
Auburn had literally everything on the field and off the field going for them up until 2 minutes left in the 1st half and it was stolen and given to Georgia. I don’t care what you say about resetting and just coming out of the locker room with a 10-point lead and being a tough team and all that. There was a bad call on a 3rd down pass interference on the 1st drive of the 2nd half. It’s tough to reset it when it kept going.
It was impossible to not feel like anything Auburn did was a lost case. I sat the entire 2nd half in silence as if I was watching Auburn lose by 100. I knew every positive was going to be met with a negative.
Whatever, Damari Alston is now off the team. Missouri finally leaves their stadium and finally hits the road for the first time after an entire half of the season. That seems fair. I’m sure we’ll see all sorts of fairness next Saturday night.
