For me - it was a culmination of BYU 2001. I was ready to fight unsuspecting BYU fans I was so pissed.
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Worst ref call in State history (topic from the pay board)...
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2009 Houston: Tyson Lee wasn't past the line of scrimmage.
2017 Alabama: Calvin Ridley ran out of bounds before coming back in to score the winning touchdown.
2021 Memphis: The referee waved his hands on the punt return, which is the same thing as blowing the whistle.
No guarantee that we win any of these games without those bad calls, but I suspect we probably win all 3.
2017 Alabama: Calvin Ridley ran out of bounds before coming back in to score the winning touchdown.
2021 Memphis: The referee waved his hands on the punt return, which is the same thing as blowing the whistle.
No guarantee that we win any of these games without those bad calls, but I suspect we probably win all 3.
That BYU game was horrible
I will put up LaBrandon Toefield scoring for lsu in 2000 went he dropped the ball at the 1 yard line. Game went to OT where we lost. Sidetrack - got to know Toefield's HS coach years later. Didn't make up for it
I will put up LaBrandon Toefield scoring for lsu in 2000 went he dropped the ball at the 1 yard line. Game went to OT where we lost. Sidetrack - got to know Toefield's HS coach years later. Didn't make up for it
There is no question that was the worst officiated game in Mississippi State history. There isn't a close second.
For you youngins, we were scheduled to host BYU Week 2 of the 2001 season. We had curbstomped them in Provo the year before. 9/11 happened and that game was pushed back to the first week in December, after the Egg Bowl. We had a disappointing season, but BYU was undefeated. The game was officiated by Mountain West refs. BYU won 41-38 after a 17 point comeback in the 4th quarter.
Every play in that fourth quarter seemed like it was aided by the refs. We get a first down? Holding. BYU gets stopped on 3rd and 30? Pass Interference.
I'm not proud to admit this, but their star RB broke his leg in that game and I was happy about it in the moment and a hatred for BYU was ignited in my heart.
Without their RB, they got blown out by Hawaii the next week and then they lost 28-10 to Louisville in the Liberty Bowl (which was C-USA champion vs. MWC champion at the time).
Just went back and checked. The RB was Luke Staley who won the Doak Walker Award that season. He finished the season with 1582 yards and 24 TDs in 10 games and 3 quarters. Got drafted late by the Lions but a broken leg was too much. Never had meaningful time in the NFL.
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My favorite call was our wide receiver getting a personal foul for indicating he made a first down. Indicating a first down equals a personal foul.
The most consequential was when Peerless Price pushed off in the end zone in the SECCG.
The other most consequential non call was when the Alabama DB hit Bear Wilson in the end zone before the end of the 1st half in 2014.
The most egregious was when. Calvin Ridley ran out of bounds and the son of a former Alabama QB said he was pushed. I watched that replay at least 1,000 times and noone touched him past the hash. When I heard what happened, thats when I stopped watching college football. If I wanted to watch scripted sports, I would watch wrasslin'.
The other most consequential non call was when the Alabama DB hit Bear Wilson in the end zone before the end of the 1st half in 2014.
The most egregious was when. Calvin Ridley ran out of bounds and the son of a former Alabama QB said he was pushed. I watched that replay at least 1,000 times and noone touched him past the hash. When I heard what happened, thats when I stopped watching college football. If I wanted to watch scripted sports, I would watch wrasslin'.
I just chalk this up to Alabama making sure we are on the schedule. They can make plays like this against MSU without any problems. Anyone else, they would have to explain...
No call John Wall lane violation leading to OT in the 2010 SEC championship game. Still pisses me off.
I'll add in the Auburn "first down" that was 2" short.
I used to complain about refs all the time, but not much anymore and feel better off for it. That said, I’ll play. I think it was one of Sherrill’s last few years we played at LSU. If I recall correctly a ref got knocked out inadvertently and they replaced him with some obvious Cajun referree. He alone started calling phantom PIs and let LSU do everything with no calls. It was blatant and he didn’t even try to hide it. We lost the game. I don’t care much looking back but it was really upsetting at the time. Anyone else remember this game and sequence of events?
2018 MBB vs Missouri. Lamar peters got called for a push off just before he hit what would’ve been the game winning 3 in OT. Replay shows Mizzou guy flops and sold it. Would’ve been a road win over an NCAA team who knows if we would’ve gotten in the tournament that year but that one would’ve helped our case
This is not #1 but is in the top 5
The Dick Pace phantom pass interference call against Ole Miss in 1981. I still get mad as HELL thinking about it.
The Dick Pace phantom pass interference call against Ole Miss in 1981. I still get mad as HELL thinking about it.
This is the play I recall when people complain about replay. The lack of it cost that one.
Maybe not ref related but this was the most traumatic play in MSU football history to me. I had nightmares about it as a kid.
The 2000 season might be the biggest "what could have been" in MSU history. 7-4 regular season with loss to USCE on the BS, loss to LSU in OT after the missed fumble call resulting in a LSU today, & Madkin getting the damned flu before the Ole Miss which we lost during a monsoon in Oxford. .
The DL was also decimated by injuries late in the year.
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Not as grand of a scale, but getting bulldozed coming down the court at the end of the championship game against Notre Dame was awful….they took a chance away from us to really put our name on the map for once.
I’ll tell you what’s crazy…..I’m over 50, and just reading this thread I can feel my heart rate going up. I can’t believe I’ve subjected myself to this all these years…we are historically not very good, so these kinds of games/plays can be devastating to us.
That said, I couldn’t swap allegiances if I tried.
I’ll tell you what’s crazy…..I’m over 50, and just reading this thread I can feel my heart rate going up. I can’t believe I’ve subjected myself to this all these years…we are historically not very good, so these kinds of games/plays can be devastating to us.
That said, I couldn’t swap allegiances if I tried.
We could have won every game that year. I remember speaking to the SC RB a couple years later and he was like man yall should have won that game. All Kendall Roberson had to do was look up. I believe this may have been Lou Holtz second year after 0-11 and they were hungry. That game stung. I can still hear that stupid cock sound that kept going off that game.
I was at that BYU game. If I recall correctly they kept running an illegal play with no calls. All the fans in the stands were livid. Some BYU fan called into Coach Sherrill’s show after the game asking if we wanted cheese with all our whine.
the Ridley one was so bad because they got the call right. Ref threw his hat. It was only when they realized what the right call cost bama that they flipped it.
After the game, there was almost a riot when the refs were getting in their car ready to speed away. Granted, we could win 70-0 and there will be a handful of people yelling at the refs as they leave but there were a couple of hundred that night on the verge of pushing through the circle security had formed around them.
When I got home I called my dad who had been a high school ref and he always defended refs on almost every call. He was so pissed he could hardly talk. He said he'd never seen anything like it. He said the tv announcers were dumbfounded by some of the calls.
Does anyone remember Jackie's postgame comments? Jackie started by saying (trying to quote but probably not 100% accurate). "I've coached a lot of years. I've won a lot of games and I've lost a lot of games but tonight is the first time I've ever had a game taken from me."
1968 vs LSU in B R. Late in game we are about LSU 10 yard line. First down. We run a play get stopped. The down marker flips from 1st to 3rd. We lose 20-16.
BYU 2001 was the only time I was ever 100% convinved that the officals had an agenda. There is nothing anyone could tell me that would ever change my mind.
That LSU fumble call was really bad too, especially with the field judge right in front of it. If you watch the replay, you can tell by the demeanor of Toefield and some other LSU players that they assumed it was a fumble.
Here is my take on it though - I never felt like that lost us the ballgame. I think they would have found a way to win the game anyway. It was early in the game. They could have gotten the ball back and gouged us up and down the field just like they did on the fumble drive and just like they did most of the rest of the ballgame. Saban and Jimbo schemed that game perfectly. Mississippi State's defense was never the same after that night. We came back the next week and let Middle Tennesee State move it up and down the field on us. It was the beginning of the end for Joe Lee Dunn and Sherrill too.
Everyone wants to point to 9/11 as the beginning of the end for Sherrill. But I agree. It was that night in Baton Rouge.
That game was literally life changing for me. My junior year, had been going to games with a group of people. For whatever reason I guess most went home that weekend instead of staying for the game.. probably because they were sick of losing by that point. I went to the game with couple of girls I’d met that semester… me and one kind of hit it off that night, and we’ve been suffering thru msu football games ever since.
No phantom holding in Tuscaloosa in ‘99?
Disappointed we got this far without at least a mention.
Disappointed we got this far without at least a mention.
I hated John Forecade before he scored that touchdown. He was a prick. I was at that egg bowl. That pass interference call was the worst I’d ever seen. We won that game!
Tubberville’s smirk after ole Miss beat us 15-14 on a last minute 2pt conversion was a tough one to stomach.
I was at that game. Freddie Milons beat us. I had to sit in the Alabama student section. I can’t remember his name but our punter had to have kicked one 70-80 yards in the air. Was definitely the longest punt I’ve ever seen in person. The referees definitely helped Alabama in my view… par for the course.