Fans hammer SEC officials for questionable non-calls in Georgia-Texas A&M game
Georgia remains alive in the College Football Playoff hunt with a 19-13 win over Texas A&M. Some fans think the conference officials helped the Bulldogs beat the Aggies.
Numerous calls and non-calls went in UGA’s favor. No call for offensive pass interference on George Pickens’ touchdown and no call for pass interference Texas A&M’s third-down play that resulted in the Aggies’ final punt of the game loom large in a six-point decision.
Even former Bulldog David Pollack said Georgia got away with a penalty on the third-down pass.
That was clearly defensive holding or pass interference on Georgia’s defense. Got away with that one.
— David Pollack (@davidpollack47) November 23, 2019
The mentions for the official Twitter account of SEC officiating were, predictably, a bloodbath:
@SECOfficiating y’all suck high school refs could be calling a better game right now
— Joshua huerta (@joshua_huerta) November 23, 2019
If @GeorgiaFootball had 2 losses already and weren't in contention for the @CFBPlayoff @AggieFootball would win this game. Change my mind. @SECOfficiating sucks
— Bradley Hall (@brad0808) November 23, 2019
Congratulations to the @SECOfficiating crew A&M will lose by 6 and you saved UGA with your spotted 10 points on no calls.
— AggieDarkSide12 (@1stColonel) November 23, 2019
Actually it’s the @SECOfficiating we failed to take into account in our game plan.
— Dan Biles (@dan_biles) November 23, 2019
Bad look for SEC, it was almost blatantly obvious they wanted to make sure Georgia stayed at the fourth slot
— Tmac12830 (@TomMcMa91746242) November 23, 2019
@SECOfficiating is terrible absolutely garbage#cheating4georgia
— 5star (@BamaRussell) November 23, 2019
Horrible all afternoon. Every call has gone UGA’s way.
— Tyler Novak (@TheTylerNovak) November 23, 2019
@SECOfficiating Congrats. Y’all did it.
— Anthony Morgan (@tony_mor2) November 23, 2019
CONGRATS TO @SECOFFICIATING ON BEATING A&M TODAY
— jared (@22jaredc) November 23, 2019
@SECOfficiating i need some answers
— lindsey black (@lindseyblack__) November 23, 2019
@SECOfficiating when Georgia commits pass interference pic.twitter.com/O0Xytb35gj
— Maximilian (@MaxKirking) November 23, 2019
@SECOfficiating https://t.co/gy9C6jwNy6
— SwampLife (@SwampLife015) November 23, 2019
Hey, @SECOfficiating y’all blind?
— Travis Old (@travis_old) November 23, 2019
3rd blown big call today please send your thanks to @SECOfficiating
— Tom Hudgins (@Tomhudge) November 23, 2019
Fromm to Swift: Don’t worry. @SECOfficiating is going to get us through this.
— Sam Stanfield (@SamStanfield2) November 23, 2019
Nothing for the SEC to gain if A&M wins. UGA is being “protected@
— PoppaT (@FerrellpoppaT) November 23, 2019
I’m okay losing to Georgia in a Well officiated game. I’m not okay “losing” to Georgia with this crap pic.twitter.com/e9OFsB8Pww
— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) November 23, 2019
Hey @SECOfficiating you’re a MF joke…. terrible https://t.co/XZke1sEPL8
— tman (@i_am_tman) November 23, 2019
@GregSankey @SECOfficiating this was #7 today
— Kevin E (@edwardsk2003) November 23, 2019
Waiting for the Chris Wright article bashing us.
The officials helping UGA out has been the story of this season. They through them a lifeline in the South Carolina game resulting in Overtime. The Seth Williams catch reversal as well as reversing the on side kick. Not calling the face mask against Nix which would have produced a first down.
@WarEagle………The onside kick WAS ILLEGALLY TOUCHED BEFORE 10 YARDS!!!! Auburn held the whole game and got away with most of it. The pass was out!!!! GO CRY IN YOUR MILK!!!!
Now I see why players are leaving the state of Alabama. I guess the SMART KIDS ARE ALL LEAVING!!! And that leaves only the FAMOUS INBRED ALABAMA FAMILIES!!!! I’ll bet your kin to the Updike family. However they spell their name. Uncle Harvey don’t like you though!!!! LOL.
PS. CRYBABIES!!!! Just beat Alabama or SHUT UP!!!!
King Negan
WarEagle 1969, you are so far off the mark.
The officials allowed the Auburn DB’s to hold and garb the GA receivers arms before the ball got there all game long. Every time the receiver made his cut the DB would grab and hold them back.
If the officials wanted to help Georgia in the Auburn game, they wouldn’t have allowed the Auburn DB’s to get away with it on almost every play. Georgia would’ve scored at least 10-14 more points.
Funny thing about that. Smart made several comments during this week leading up to the T A&M game about how his receivers were being “grabbed”.
The GA DB’s haven’t been playing that way, but they did against T A&M. If they are going to call a fastball 8″ off the plate a strike…
Auburn is simply not as good as Georgia. Next year will be another 5-6 loss season for Auburn. Malzahn just had his one good year out of six, and that with 4 losses.
That is about as good as it gets for Auburn…
Well I guess the Bulldogs have arrived. Calls like this used to go AGAINST Georgia and cost them dearly against the likes of Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Tennessee and Florida. Sorry Aggies but if you want favorable treatment from the officials late in the season at home you need to put yourself in playoff contention 3 years in a row. 2017: made the playoff. 2018: would have made the playoff had Rodrigo Blankenship not choked on that field goal and/or Jake Fromm not gotten happy feet and missed open receivers multiple times in the 4th. (Note: the Jake Fromm of 2019 beats Bama in 2018 and 2017. The problems this year are due to the WRs and TEs, not Fromm.) 2019: will make the playoff if they win out.
Putting yourself in the playoff conversation brings exposure and money to the conference. If A&M wants some of that for themselves they need to do the same. That’s just the way it is. The Falcons could never get calls against the 49ers back in the day. ACC teams couldn’t get calls against FSU. Big 10 teams get calls against Michigan and Ohio State? Forget it. Big 8 refs make calls against Oklahoma and Nebraska? Wasn’t going to happen. Big East officials make critical calls for Virginia Tech and West Virginia against Miami? Pac-10 refs throwing flags against USC? Didn’t happen.
I know it stinks A&M fans. But you know, you COULD have played better. 3rd and 5 in the red zone in the first quarter, what does Kellen Mond, a JUNIOR QB do? Let the play clock run out and get a delay of game penalty. A shot at a TD becomes a field goal. The next drive, he throws the ball at a guy’s feet and sails a ball 5 yards too far when a WR had his guy beat. Three and out, and UGA scores a TD on the next drive. What should have been an A&M lead against a UGA offense that has trouble mounting comebacks instead is 16-3 UGA. Game over. Aggies didn’t play well enough to complain about the officiating anyway.
P.S. Not a UGA fan. In fact I despise UGA fans (though not the team or the school or players or coaches. Just their fans). So trust me … I have no reason to take their side on this.
That is the silliest response of any I seen concerning bad officiating. I do agree that Bama has gotten their share of bad calls, but that doesn’t make it right. I can speak for other conferences, but the SEC must clean up bad officiating, not excuse it because some teams (actually the overwhelming majority) are not relevant to the CFP. Bunch of crap.
@redsox………..SHUT THE F UP!!!!! Alabama wrote the book on BAD REFS!!!! They got THEIR SHARE AND EVERYONE ELSES SHARE OF CALLS!!!! ALL IN THEIR FAVOR!!!! Without all the bad CALLS you can erase HALF OR MORE OF SABANS TITLES!!!!
Now that Alabama got BEAT and clearly do not deserve even consideration for the playoffs. Now you want to talk about THE REFS???? You and BamaTime ALWAYS talk about how UGA COMPLAINED ABOUT THE REFS AND RIGHTLY SO!!!!!! Y’all called us CRYBABIES!!!!
PS. So what is it called now that it’s not in bamas favor???? I’m just curious???
King Negan
King Negan, lose to LSU and your team is out of CFP. Don’t get too cocky.
@kingNegan, as an LSU fan, Alabama without Tua is still 3x the team Georgia is this year. And as bad as Bama fans can be, you are worse. We are all dumber for having read your comments.
As usual a one sided BS article!!!!! The announcers as well as the replay guys didn’t bother calling out TX A&M for all the times they got by with MURDER IN THIS GAME!!!!!
PS. But at least we know who everyone wanted to win!!!!!! And WHY???? So we can watch Alabama be given ANOTHER FREE RIDE THEY DIDN’T COME CLOSE TO EARNING?????
King Negan
I didn’t want Georgia to win because I don’t not care for Kirby. I did not like him when he was at Alabama and I most assuredly do not like him now. Fact.
Don’t not care? For future reference that’s a double negative which means that you do care.
redsox2004. “I did not like him when he was at Alabama”
That is the biggest dump truck load of BS …
No, you don’t like Kirby now! You don’t like Kirby because he knocked Saban off the recruiting throne in 2008, and all you have to do now is just look at the defensive start to see the effect.
Georgia is No.1(SEC) No.5 Nationally.
Alabama is No.4(SEC) No.16 Nationally.
Before Kirby left Georgia couldn’t compete with Alabama not with recruiting and not on the field. Now they can and they do.
And those are the fact’s of why you hate Kirby Smart.
To all you ONE SIDED CRY BABIES!!!! TX A&M finished with – yards rushing if it hadn’t been given to you!!!!!
THE REAL TRUTH IS THAT UGA CLEARLY DOMINATED THE ENTIRE GAME EVEN THOUGH WE HAD A BAD GAME IN THE RAIN!!!!!
The only team who DESERVED TO WIN WAS UGA PERIOD!!!!!! You don’t deserve to get PWhipped the WHOLE GAME then make a few lucky plays in the end to win!!!!
That is called GETTING LUCKY!!!! And make no mistake. There were TONS OF NO CALLS AGAINST UGA TODAY!!!! So stop crying!!!!!
King Negan
Go back under your rock.
A&M has more first downs more total yards and more time of possession. “Dominated the game”. Sure dude
And 6 points in 3 quarters. No one is going to call that dominating football…..DUDE!
JDunn nailed it. Georgia only had 9 points in quarters 1, 3, and 4 yet the OP said they dominated. Clearly delusional post and JDunn was just calling him out. Anyone with decent vision not from Georgia clearly saw this game and the refs completely screwed over Texas A&M.
Not opinion. Observation of fact.
The refs did not decide the game!
Every one of these so-called questionable calls look EXACTLY LIKE ALABAMA ON EVERY PLAY!!!!! So why is it suddenly questionable???? Because it’s UGA????
King Negan
They weren’t really questionable. Those were obvious bad calls that went UGA’s way.
And trust me, most LSU fans are also saints fans. WE KNOW lol
People act like this is something that just started this year.. people the refs have always sucked..they have always give the benefit of no calls and bad calls to the higher ranked team..it sucks but it’s been that way for as long as I remember…
If Fromm was even half as good as some think he is… neither of those calls would have mattered..I was at the game..Fromm missed 3 touchdowns today..two in the first quarter and another later to Cook… Georgia has a 12-0 defense but a 6-6 offense..I don’t want to pile on like Bronco and othes do..but this offense is brutal to watch..Coley is completely inept… and I know some UGA fans can’t admit it but Fromm is very average at best..yeah the receivers are young but anyone there today or watching on TV seen the plays Fromm missed…but a win is a win..I’ll take 4 more ugly wins this year…
I stopped getting worked up over bad calls years ago. They happen to both teams. aTm got away with plenty of holds by their offensive linemen and still didn’t get any rush yards. And that’s why they lost. It wasn’t calls going UGA’s way.
Cry me a river. You want a tissue? No team benefited more than the other. Maybe they lost due to the -1 rushing, or maybe because they couldn’t do jack for 3 quarters?