SEC
One of the more obvious missed calls of the day in college football wasn’t even overturned on review in the Clemson-Boston College game.
Clemson punt returner Amari Rodgers was clearly interfered with, but kick-catch interference was not called, as Boston College recovered the fumble. After review, the ruling on the field stood and the Eagles took over on offense. Rodgers appeared to signal for a fair catch, and after the call was made, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney was apoplectic on the sideline.
Ultimately, though, it resulted in just a flip in field position as the Tigers defense held, and Clemson took over at its own 10-yard line.
Perhaps the most bizarre part of the entire play was the sequence meant BC converted a fourth-and-49.
Some remarkably bad officiating today. None worse than the fair catch interference in the #BCvsClem game that wasn’t called. Wow. pic.twitter.com/0rn6eXpzae
— SportSourceAnalytics (@SportSourceA) November 11, 2018
Doesn’t matter now.
These officials get paid about $40,000. for 12 games. Fans know that officials have a lot of tools, expectations are rightfully high. Fans are not going to put up with, ie. Georgia at Missouri, officials that don’t know where to stand to see if a ball passes between the goal posts, then take 3 points away…. players drop balls before they cross the goal line….not know that forward progress ends plays and disallows take aways. And in the SEC, it just matters more. Because a lot of fans are openly saying they are not paying for that flea circus next year and they made good on it by not buying tickets already… and by not watching the TV advertising this year (ratings money runs football St. Louis and in Atlanta). So it does matter now.
Georgia at Mizzou? You mean the bogus roughing-the-passer call that gave your team a TD?