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Questionable calls, ejections, and bloopers: Week 3

Will Ogburn

By Will Ogburn

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We’re making the rounds with the biggest controversial calls, ejections and bloopers from the Saturday of SEC football…

Bloopers:

Tennessee double uniforms confuse the SEC Network

By taking a closer look at the below image, it becomes obvious that the SEC Network got confused on its player graphics since apparently multiple players for Tennessee (and many other teams) wear the same number.

South Carolina State doesn’t understand the rules

Back in the days of the NCAA Football series of video games, simply catching the ball in the end zone on a kickoff was good for a touchback. In real life, however, the rules of football still apply, and South Carolina State return man Ahmaad Harris never got the memo. Like Barry Sanders after a touchdown, Harris tried to give this would-be touchback to the official. He forgot to declare himself down first though, and Clemson special teams turned it into an easy score.

Let’s go out to the Big 12 for the next one. Oklahoma’s Joe Mixon return a kickoff for a touchdown against Ohio State, but he dropped the ball before crossing the goal line. Whoops! Luckily fir Mixon, the referees didn’t even see it and the touchdown stood.

The same exact thing happened at Cal, too, but the Bears got the ball at one one-yard line

Questionable Calls

This play was wild.

Jalen Hurts took a lick from Ole Miss’s Marquis Haynes, forcing a fumble on the play. Ole Miss would then run that fumble back for their third touchdown of the game. What Alabama fans will remember, however, are the two questionable calls that made this play possible. First off, Haynes arguable led with his head on the hit. Second, Breeland Speaks snuck a cheap block in the back past the officials, who somehow ruled that it occurred after the play. Either of these plays would have negated the TD.

But it’s okay, Tide fans, you got a make-up bad call

With Alabama down 24-10 to Ole Miss, Eddie Jackson blazed down the field for a quick score — but he had some help. When a flag hit the turf on this punt return, fans at home, as well as the broadcast team in the booth were almost sure that it was coming back. Though the outcome of this play wasn’t affected, this is basically the inverse of what Ole Miss did on the fumble recovery.

https://twitter.com/BarrettSallee/status/777256959527514112

Actually, this whole game was messy

Ole Miss and Alabama really threw a lot at the officials, and since they can’t fine us here at SDS, we can go ahead and say they weren’t perfect. The third quarter essentially ground to a halt with replay after replay, due to a number of close and controverial plays.

Ejections

Avenge me, Martez Ivey

Florida’s Martez Ivey went headhunting after a low shot injured Gators’ QB Luke Del Rio. Though it’s never commendable to get ejected, this wasn’t as merciless as most ejectable hits. This game got weird after Del Rio went down, and everyone was pretty on edge. McElwain himself went pretty crazy after Del Rio went down, but he managed to compose himself enough to shake the North Texas head coach’s hand after the game.

Kirby Choats levels Johnathon Johnson

It’s pretty hard to defend someone who was ejected for targeting while simultaneously committing kick catch interference, but that’s exactly what this one deserves. Georgia’s Kirby Choats lowered the boom on Mizzou return man Johnathon Johnson, and he did it at a time that was clearly before the ball got there. However, if this play had happened two seconds later it would’ve been totally legal. Choats lead with his shoulder, and contacted the return man’s chest. Nothing dirty about that (except for the blatant kick catch interference). The targeting call held up, and Choats will now miss the first half of next week’s game. The targeting ruling is certainly questioanble.

Will Ogburn

A former resident of both Baton Rouge and the heart of Crimson Tide country, Will Ogburn handles multimedia content and news coverage for Saturday Down South.

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