Georgia Football: 4 worst officiating calls from SEC Championship Game

Although the Georgia Football team was able to get the win in the SEC championship game, there was some truly poor officiating.

In some ways, I don’t want to write this article. The Georgia Football team was able to overcome Auburn 28-7 in a game that Dawg fans will remember for some time. However, during the game, I like many was almost in shock over the awful officiating we were watching.

In the biggest game of the year, the best showcase of SEC football, the SEC’s top officiating crew dropped the ball. They did it more than once in fact and there were 4 times where I found myself wondering if they were watching the same game as me.

To start with, having rewatched the game, I lost count of the number of clear holds Auburn’s offensive line committed. I mean it was ridiculous how often you saw them pulling shirts on UGA’s defensive linemen. And yet did the refs throw a single flag for this? Nope, not one.

Dan Rapaport at SI.com had an article during the game about these calls. Some of them were so egregious it was hard not to think that there was some form of bias going on, even though you hate to say that. I’m sure that they weren’t. Officials can’t have a bias, especially in games like this but good lord they made it easy to think that. The calls seemed to pretty much only go one way for the entire game.

As bad as the missed calls were, there were 4 penalties that the refs called against the Bulldogs that were just awful. I want to take a look at each of them in turn because they very well could have changed the game. I’m not trying to blame the officials, but they need to get better. The last thing the SEC needs is more games called like this.