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CiraldoForever said:
If we won, why is it making me feel so lousy? They got the most points, so they won. But, our coaches and team played their hearts out, and I'm sure proud of them. Regardless of the horrible calls at crucial times, we still had plenty of chances to win the game both in regulation and in 8 overtimes. It's on us. The bad news is we lost. The good news is we
are not a joke anymore. If we persevere and keep improving as fans, administrators, coaches and players, we could beat Georgia next year. If we do, it won't feel anything like this. Go Jackets!
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We already BEAT them THIS YEAR!! We just were not awarded The Governor's Trophy for the final score.
 
From this ESPN article about the playoff rankings:

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msm5 said:
From this ESPN article about the playoff rankings:

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3 disastrous results for ACC playoff hopes 2 of which were directly impacted by questionable officials from the SEC. These results directly harmed the ACC and benefitted the SEC. Had GT and Clemson won, suddenly you’re looking at a 10-2 Miami team from a conference that just went 3-1 against the SEC and 2 of their top teams.
 
GTCrew4b said:
3 disastrous results for ACC playoff hopes 2 of which were directly impacted by questionable officials from the SEC. These results directly harmed the ACC and benefitted the SEC. Had GT and Clemson won, suddenly you’re looking at a 10-2 Miami team from a conference that just went 3-1 against the SEC and 2 of their top teams.
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Especially the Clemson result. We played the #7 team at their place and went toe to toe as a 19.5-point underdog. Clemson lost as a home favorite and was ranked ahead of So Car.
 
I only caught a little of the Clem/SC game. What was the questionable reffing in that one?
 
Deke said:
I only caught a little of the Clem/SC game. What was the questionable reffing in that one?
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Didnt see it but supposedly a fumble/no fumble review that they got wrong and benefitted USCe.
 
I did watch bits and pieces of that one and will say that even with the bad calls Clemson still lost that game because of 2 main things:

1 - they could not tackle Sellers. Had him dead to rights several times in the backfield on 3rd down to get off the field and let him get loose for big gains. One was even the last TD USCe scored should have been a TFL.

2 - bad decision by Klubnik to force a throw at the end of regulation that got tipped up and picked to seal it for USCe. Clemson was inside the 20 (maybe inside the 10?), basically had a tying FG in their back pocket with less than a minute and forced it too much trying to score the TD.
 
It's insane to me that college football still has conference officials. In just about any other industry, even a perceived conflict of interests would be enough to get you off of a project. Yet, we just pretend that the refs are just too pure and worried about the integrity of the game itself to possibly be influenced by the monetary benefits to the conference they work for. If anyone says, "You know, it really looks like Sankey had words with the refs at halftime," they're some crazy conspiracy theorist, but the alternative that he wouldn't do everything in his power, including influencing his employees, to ensure an extra few million dollars for the company he runs is treated as some kind of reasonable alternative.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
 
LaFlavor said:
It's insane to me that college football still has conference officials. In just about any other industry, even a perceived conflict of interests would be enough to get you off of a project. Yet, we just pretend that the refs are just too pure and worried about the integrity of the game itself to possibly be influenced by the monetary benefits to the conference they work for. If anyone says, "You know, it really looks like Sankey had words with the refs at halftime," they're some crazy conspiracy theorist, but the alternative that he wouldn't do everything in his power, including influencing his employees, to ensure an extra few million dollars for the company he runs is treated as some kind of reasonable alternative.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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Agree. With the amount of money that on the line these days it seems that it would be a no brainer to standardize the officiating crews.
 
Tampa Jacket said:
Georgia Tech is not the only team to get hosed by officiating crews calling UGA games.
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Not just u(sic)GA games. It happens multiple times a year for all SEC OOC games.

Obviously the SEC doesn't win every OOC game they play, but if the officials just put their thumbs on the scale a little bit, the wins can easily go from 50/50 to 60/40 or 70/30, which is plenty to keep the perceived strength of the conference alive.

But even if the refs are pure as the driven snow and can't possibly be influenced by money, the perception alone should be enough to disqualify them. If I were heavily invested in a start-up acquisition that my current employer wanted to make, there is no way in hell I'd be allowed anywhere near that project. It wouldn't even be a question, and I'm overall a pretty decent guy... sorta.
 
The game identifies as stolen and not found. Someone should edit wiki and put an asterisk on the game citing potential outside influence. Will drive the dwags nuts.
 
The refs in general are what I like least about any level of football, it is by far the most frustrating thing. While it's not an easy task, there's no way you can convince me that officiating is anywhere near as good as it could be, it's pathetically bad and the whole system needs to be reinvented. There's no excuse at all for the crap that happens over and over and it constantly amazes me how the level of incompetence is just accepted (not to mention things more nefarious but even without that is it putrid).
 
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