Instant replay has drastically changed football games over the past few seasons.

The SEC now uses replay officials on site at football games and that work in collaboration with other replay officials at a central office in Birmingham, Alabama. Many plays, including targeting penalties, are open for review and could be overturned by replay officials.

Unfortunately, for all the good that replay has brought about, fans seem drawn to the negatives. One play, for instance, came in the Texas A&M-Arkansas game over the weekend.

George Schroeder with USA TODAY broke down the play and the limitations of the replay system currently in place:

Replays were conclusive. The video proof was indisputable. It took no time at all to understand what the correct call should have been: Touchdown, Texas A&M. Instead, the side judge blew the play dead, saying Kellen Mond had stepped out of bounds near the 10. And this was the reason for the palpable frustration inside a room 600 miles away from the stadium: There was nothing anyone could do about it.

By rule, plays blown dead for being out of bounds are not able to be reviewed. It is a tough pill for fans to swallow, but there remains a number of plays and outcomes that replay is unable to overturn. It speaks to the human element that remains in football games.

Steve Shaw, the SEC’s coordinator of football officials, says there are two things officials focus on:

“There are two things we try to do,” said Shaw. “Consistency and avoid incorrect outcomes.”

Nevertheless, Shaw truly believes that it is not the job of replay to interrupt the game on every questionable call.

“Obviously, I’d love to have a perfect day,” Shaw said. “I’m still waiting for that. But unfortunately, it was an incorrect call on the field that couldn’t be reviewed by replay…Replay has its guidelines. The goal is not to fix everything. People think they want that, but if you really work through what that means, it means replay is too intrusive.”

It can safely be said that replay has benefited the game of football and corrected many wrong decisions on the field. Still, a limit to what can and cannot be replayed does make some sense as the human element will never truly be removed from the game.