Ed Orgeron sends inquiries to SEC office about calls in LSU-Alabama game
Ed Orgeron said he usually doesn’t petition the SEC office to review calls.
He’s changing that trend this week.
LSU’s interim coach said during a Monday news conference that he is sending inquiries to league officials about calls made during the No. 19 Tigers’ 10-0 loss to No. 1 Alabama last Saturday.
"I think there were some very questionable things that happened," O said of sending some inquiries to SEC office. "I usually don't do that."
— Glenn Guilbeau (@LSUBeatTweet) November 7, 2016
Orgeron says he hopes to get an "interpretation" and "explanation" from the SEC on several calls or no-calls vs. #Bama. #LSU
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) November 7, 2016
Orgeron is most likely referring to Crimson Tide quarterback Jalen Hurts’ fourth-quarter touchdown scramble the broke a scoreless tie. Replay appears to show several instances of holding or blocks in the back of LSU players, which sprung the 21-yard touchdown on a critical third-and-9.
Here's Hurts' TD run and then in slow mo. This is a play #LSU will likely send to the SEC office, if it hasn't already done so. pic.twitter.com/PSQ3Ohtb7k
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) November 7, 2016
The one TD in the #LSU–#Bama game didn't come without controversy.
Orgeron was asked about officiating in post-game presser: "I was upset." pic.twitter.com/H9TzHqvlTL
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) November 6, 2016
Referees do seem a bit biased when you play bama…
Shocker.
I know, they called twice as many penalties on us as they did LSU. The bias against Alabama has to stop.
Lol at excuses.
That means nothing. Simplistic at best.
It’s almost as if the better a team does against someone the more penalties the loser thinks went against them. Even if the winning team actually had more go against them.
There were a lot of no calls in the game, but it wasn’t just Alabama getting them. People keep saying the ref’s let them play… I call BS. It’s the officiating crews job to make the right call’s as they see them. Can they miss some? Sure. LSU and Alabama should have both been penalized more. I still don’t think that calling the hold on that play would have made a difference. Had the score been say.. 21-17 and that play happened and no call came from it, then sure it would have been a game changer. LSU was too offensively unprepared for that call or any call to have made a difference.
Excuses? Almost every analyst in the country is talking about that play. Hell #8 almost drug the LSU defender to the ground for crying out loud and he was going to hit hurts in the backfield. Whether thats what changes the outcome of the game or not is hard to say as LSU couldnt score all fkn night. The penalties were there though.
you drank too much before game time……sober people saw it differently!!
You are right, it does need to stop, but I think you meant for Alabama, not against. Its so obvious, and it doesn’t matter who they are playing. Anyone who denies that is just that, in denial.
When you commit more penalties, you should get more called. That comparison is one a 3-year-old might get away with.
Question is, are they calling each team without bias?
I have seen articles where fans accuse Auburn of getting favortism…….
Penalties: UA 6-29 – LSU 3-20! Yep, that certainly looks like referee bias to me! smh
Coach O may have a legitimate complaint, but it would behoove him to review and analyze the entire game footage before filing said complaint. Considering the fact that LSU could have and should have had multiple penalties charged against them on both sides of the ball, throughout the majority of the game, it would be wise to leave the matter be!
That is a totally ridiculous stat. Team A could commit 20 penalties with 10 actually called and Team B commit 10 penalties with 10 actually called. Would that indicate any bias?
Officials miss a lot of penalties, some they see and ignore and some they don’t see. It is the first category that is open to bias.
They could’ve called holding on both squads all night. The refs decided early that they were gonna let the boys play and they stuck to it
My sentiments exactly!
Block in the back (2 of them) on the only TD scored is bias come on guys Bama doesn’t have to cheat to win but will if allowed saban is baby bill belichek will do whatever he can get away with
Death and Taxes feel like random occurrences compared to LSU fans complaining about officiating.
Two LSU fans on this article questioned the officiating. Two. Go find your safe place.
make it three… I’ve seen the video from the end zone view of that ref stalking LF7 then squaring up on him.. it was obvious he intentionally ran into Leonards path.
LMAO……
you’ve obviously not seen the video I’ve seen… not that it would change your opinion…
I doubt that would have changed the game, but we might have all gotten to see LF7 take on RF10 head on… our loss…
Come on. He didn’t square up and intentionally run into him. He was out of position but intentional? LMAO..
hopefully you’ll get to see the video shot from behind the ref… Hopefully th dude that posted it will put it on youtube.
Yep. The SEC orders officials to block Fournette. Nothing COMPLETELY INSANE about suggesting that or anything.
wheeeeww, thanks SG, an all along, I thought it was just me…
LMFAO at PoFoke, I seem to recall LF7 meeting RF10 head on a few years ago on a punt return, and if memory serves LF7 is lucky to still be playing after that hit………..
LMAO! Really if anything the ref helped Fournette get a few extra yards.
Oh, okay. I’ll put aside the fact we’ve been listening to LSU fans whine about this for years. Say, what is the article itself about?
Ok so take away the TD and Bama still wins 3-0. LSWHO can whine all they want but they lost period, TD or no TD.
I was at the game. There was no hold!! If the refs wanted to they could call “holding”on most plays……LSU stop crying and move on!! RTR
Moronic post. You can see plays much better at home than the game. Watch the replay and get back with us.
So you can see a penalty better on camera in slow motion than in person? You don’t say…
Your buddy didn’t seem to know that. You might want to clue him in.
So is that why refs misses calls during games? That cant be it…..
That is why there is replay. The game is awful fast and it is easy to miss plays on the field. Glad I could help, even if you are nothing but a troll.
They are not going to replay every play to look for penalties. That would make the game crazy long. Do you think LSU was called for everything? Nevermind, I shouldn’t expect a liar to be honest
LSUMC….guess what…they have replay at the game on the big screens. You would know that IF you had ever been to a game!! Boy, these LSwho fans are some of the dumbest in the SEC
Yes – do either of you know that?
I did watch it MORON……when I got back home and there was still NO HOLD. Waa Waa Waa…do you need a diaper change? Loser!!
Angry 12 year olds are the best.
Liars are the worst.
The fact remains LSwhoMC …….you and your team are still losers!! Bahahahaha
When your whole identity is a football team, you are a loser, and it doesn’t matter how good or bad your team is.
When you lie you’re a liar….
I love reading a good “you have nothing in your life but football” comment from a guy who posts on football message boards all day.
Too damn funny SupremeGump. LSUSMC seems to be everywhere.
You have to call 3 holds with the runner in the middle on a game deciding play.
Barnyard your time is coming!! RTR
We won by 10 not 7. That TD was not a game decider, the FG was. Either way Bama wins, with or without the TD.
The only one that could have been called was on Bo the other two where coming off their blocks and it appeared they were holding when they were not.
Wonder if he also sent the phantom procedure call that went against Alabama in?
So do you guys actually think LSU got called for every “penalty” that could have been called? So much crying……Lets see if the SEC comments on this or not. Wait it wont matter. A LSU fan will lie and Say they did.
And one day, the little child known as a Bama fan will grow up. Or so his mom keeps telling him. You are only a child once, but you can be childish forever.
Well I do know you’re a liar…….Lets hear your next tall tale…
You just keep trolling and I will keep laughing. There are clowns like you on every board. The real football fans are used to your type. I see most here just ignore you. I should have noticed that earlier. My mistake. I felt sorry for you because you kept getting ignored. Now I know why.
LSWHOMC….you are the clown and you’re team are losers!! Have fun watching Bama win another NC……
You’re a liar. The bad thing is you know you lied…….
I have never lied on a website. I did run across a stupid kid once that likes to call me that though. You are that stupid kid.
You must be a born liar….have you ever been honest? You continue to lie.
The Gump have been very defensive lately in the comment sections. It’s obvious at this point they are aware of Alabama privelage they just don’t have the character or integrity to admit. I mean it’s not like they have an entire history of cheating and making up championships.
take away the “fake” championships and tell me how many more they have than your team…i’m guessing over 4?!
now, forget the distant past and think of the last 20 years…still probably 4…
“Alabama privelage”…which i assume is privilege, where we come from.
Not going to comment on the LSU-Bama game officiating but officiating in the SEC as a whole this year has been awful. They have missed so many blatant calls and made way to many bad calls this season. The NCAA or at least the SEC should definitely review the officiating this offseason and make some changes with their on the field refs. No excuse the best conference in football has such poor officiating.
That is the most truthful of any post in this thread.
I agree…lousy officiating throughout the SEC. I saw Auburn fumble Saturday and get it overturned. Everyone at home and at the game knew it was a fumble. I also saw Auburn hold and the refs didnt even mark off the penalty. Crazy. I counted 15 holds that could have been called on LSU. Probably as many on Bama. I am a Bama fan but watch a lot of college football. 9 times out of ten the home teams get the edge in officiating. That is why it is so difficult to win on the road in the SEC.
You know, when a call is overturned on replay, you can bet the overturn was correct. First, there is the “indisputable” barrier and there are numerous officials involved – not one. We all see calls the way we want them – period.
The ones I don’t like are the ones that literally cry out for review, and they don’t even take 5 seconds to look. They might not overturn it, but we never know.
So if they review it what they say is correct? You’re the same guy riding the targeting train on bama a few weeks back. That play was reviewed. ….Any bias to your comment? Of course not right?
The Auburn hold that you’re referring to wasn’t marked off because Derek Mason (HC for Vandy) declined the penalty.
accurate assessment
anyone who has ever played on a line – offense or defense – knows this is game play. not biased, not a missed call, just plain and simple blocking. had the tables been turned, i would still say the same thing. there were plenty of missed calls ALL SEASON against Alabama, but nobody complains about that!
Coach O wants to save his job, and he will deflect all he can to get support to keep what he has. i don’t blame him, because he had them ready to play. the down and dirty is that Bama has a better team, and they won the game. his inquiry changes nothing in the long run.
Coach O’s job was never fully dependent on the dama game, regardless of what some rag writers would want people to believe..
There’s more salt in these comments than in the Dead Sea.
Coach Orgeron needs to petition the SEC asking for help in finding an offense!
Just look at the highlight reels, especially on the TD play. ‘Bama got a ref assisted TD.
LSUMC…….Hey remind us what the SEC said about petersons interception a few years …..Oh thats right.. They didnt comment liar…
Grow up child. Do you think the refs got the Peterson call correct?
I dont even care as its years ago. You made a post about it to blatantly lie……You’re a liar.
Still just a troll that can’t answer a simple question. Exactly what I expected.
You never answered my question earlier but expect me to answer yours….Typical. You’re a liar and you know it
@BT, you think he is a liar because he stated his perspective on a better view for a penalty and stated it as absolute opinion, regarding a college football game?
No. Its from his post on another article. He said the SEC made the comment that they missed the call on petersons interception back a few years ago because they didnt have HD………The SEC actually didnt comment on that playnat all…..I asked him to post the article he said its easy to find that he just found it….That was a lie as well as the SEC didnt comment on the play…..I even posted a article stating the SEC refused to comment and he kept on…..He is a liar.
@BT, Ahh gotcha, so he lied about football stuff, then? My point is we are all fans – “fan” being short for…fanatic! You or I or anyone else shouldn’t expect absolute from folks.
To keep calling him a liar is immature and annoying for us readers. Just deal with the typed words; you don’t know him so what does this lie effect? If it smells like BS, call it out, but don’t go after character.
The thing is i made the comment that the SEC didn’t comment the he decided to call me out. Instead of saaying yeah my bad i remebered it wrong he continued to take shots….So when he gets on his penalty kick I remind him he is a liar.
@BT, Fair. @LSUSMC, Start worrying about a Ark, it may be a long two weeks.
Ahhh, the Peterson call. Where LSU was cheated out of the win.
Because everybody knows Jarrett Lee was going to engineer a game winning drive if that had been called. It’s just what the kid does, after all. Ice water in his veins, etc.
There does not appear to be a Bama fan in the country that can admit that Peterson made that play. And then you guys have the gall to talk about other fans. Keep up the good work.
Lsumc tried to say the SEC commented that they blew the call due to no HD……Such a liar
You cant seem to admit you lied……..
I led you to the articles that talked about it. Your lack of research and comprehension skills does not make me a liar. You can’t answer the question about Peterson and I understand why. You either have to admit that the lack of HD was a problem, or you have to admit favoritism. You are not honest enough to admit either. Somehow in your demented mind, that makes me a liar. Got it.
Again you lie. There is no article where the SEC comments on that play because they didnt comment ….. That is what makes you a liar
Coach O needs to send an inquiry to Fournette as to why he tiptoes against Bama. Actually I know the answer. It’s called fear.
It’s called a lack of blocking by the OLine. Nice try though.
The Alabama D-line was being held all night but no one cares enough to go back and look at that. You have time to disengage as someone runs away from you. Video shows a lot more than a picture.
Nobody cares because bama won. LSU should have been called for offensive PI which prevented a interception…..LSU Oline is such crap even holding they couldnt block the DL…
that was a missed call… whether it would have resulted in an INT is debatable… But receivers are trained to prevent an INT just like DB’s will take an PI to prevent a TD.. There were some bad calls both ways, that is true…
* meant “no calls”..
I agree. There is Missed calls both ways in basically every Football game. We get the chance to watch it over and over in slow mo. The ref doesnt get that……To try to blame the refs when missed calls went your way as well is stupid.
meh, it’s all a part of foosball..
Yes it is…….I wonder if he included the missed calls against LSU?……LMAO.
took me a second, but I figure you’re talking about O sending in the complaint… I’m sure that happens most every week in the NCAA… only maybe it’s just when it’s teams who lose to bama that it gets covered….
damn, yeah, I know, even that looks like whining.. ;)
Bama is one of the most penalized teams in the conference this season…Hard to say that’s favoritism
Poor, poor, pitiful, pitiful LSU, reduced to whining.
as much as it pains me to say, I congratulate all you nasty dama fans. Your defense has proven that they are possibly sabans best ever… I hate dama but I gotta give them their props where deserved…
LSU had their defense dialed in and playing on a elite level….Aranda is earning his paycheck
I just hope Alleva don’t make a bad move and lose him.. I know barring the HC spot eventually he will go, but now is not good timing for that.
LSU needs to learn to hold better. Clearly another head coach like Lane Kiffin could teach them that. Seriously, that play was a bck braker. If not perhaps Bama has to take a fg and LSU is still in it. Who knows? It could have turned out diferently.
You had 25 yards in the second half…..LMAO.
actually Grimes is failing big time at that part of his job…
Our interim OC was a TE coach moved into a role he really cant handle with an inept QB and a no blocking O-Line. LSU should have either left Miles as HC until the end of the season, or had a new OC lined up prior to the firing. Dumb move on our AD, but you cant blame the coaching staff really.
nah, Delahousay’s blocked FG killed any momentum we might have been able to muster up… And he runs down the sideline telling everyone that looked at him, someone slapped the ball… duh, yeah not hard to slap with such a low projectory….
The team knew right then that FG’s weren’t gonna cut it… trouble is, our makeshift OL just got that ass whupped..
I would just like to say how wonderful it is to know that Alabama is living in the collective heads of all SEC fans rent free.
Apparently we have beaten you all into such submission, all you have left is to blame the refs, SEC office (it is in Birmingham ya know) and the legendary REC.
The same things win that always won, the only thing that changes are the excuses when you lose.
All? I love these idiotic comments.
Man, the comments sections on these Saban Bowl aftermath posts have been pretty friendly until this one. Now all the Bama fans showed up to defend their team.
Just remember, this is SDS we’re talking about here. This isn’t an LSU fan posting this on his blog to whine about officiating. This is SDS doing what they do best, post articles to stir up drama.
Yes, I can confirm there were missed calls for both teams. How do I know that? Illuminati.
This is not a good look for Coach O. First he threw the QB under the bus and now this. I am sure Coach O did not put together a video showing all the missed holds against his team.
Officials miss calls all the time, but to suggest that they are biased for Alabama is funny. I have not been happy with the officiating, but it is usually bad both ways (this even includes the phantom punch BS that was called on Powell in the game against UT – just bad officiating)
What’s funnier is when I see an LSU fan suggests that an official squared up to interfere with a LF run. Yeah, the official really wanted to go up against him with no pads the game after he saw LF truck a safety. If this is the case then you might as well fault LF who should have the better reaction to be able to juke and official in his 50s.
actually I screamed for LF7 to truck his ass.. but evidently he’s more of a gentleman than me…
No one mentions the false start call that never even happened…..because it was an Alabama win
bama is the only hope for the sec to win the national championship. if the sec has a two loss team we probably won’t make the playoffs. remember les miles is gone. he’s the only coach that could pull that off. bama will get all the calls/no calls you can bet on that
Except they didnt….The missed offensive PI on LSU is clearly a missed call…
what the hell are you talking about, if auburn wins the sec with a close loss to one of the top teams in clemson and another very good team in a&m, and both those losses were in september, they will make the playoffs.
There were several missed calls both ways! If you truly think the refs are biased it may be because your team lost and you have to find an excuse instead of realizing that your team got beat by a better team! Roll Tide!!
So its apparent that the refs were moderately poor overall in this game, with huge mistakes costing both teams. The better team won, and life goes on. It was a great game. Truly. It is interesting though, that a few bama fans on this article love to say lsu fans whine every year when its the same 2 or 3 guys on this article that have said anything. I find it interesting how voraciously they read this comment section and defend their win. Could it be? Alabama lsu actually IS a good rivalry and probably the best/most important game of the year? Can we quit pretending that Alabama doesn’t care about this game? Lol its fantastic football. Closing statement: no, not all lsu fans were saying we were as good as bama. Many were saying we had the best shot at y’all. And I think that was/is true. And no. Not all lsu fans blame the refs. Most of us don’t. I think there were plenty of bad calls, including the touchdown, but y’all won the trenches. Period. The only generalization we should be making about this game or the fanbases is that its a great game and a great rivalry. If there wasn’t a lot of fear, respect, excitement, and interest in this game every year, you wouldn’t have 100 comments on the article. You wouldn’t have so much media coverage. You wouldn’t have nick saban coached teams uncharacteristically getting 3 unsportsmanlike penalties…. The players care, the fans care, its great football. Can’t wait til next year.
Sooner or later Bama will fall. No one is perfect, including Alabama. May Auburn take care of them in the iron bowl. Auburn seems to have their crap together…. both on Offense and defense!