This was the worst EVER!! Don't know what Dick Pace's agenda was, other than Old Piss whip-out.This is the first one I thought of.
No offense but 17 those polygamist weirdo’s. Not to say they all are, still, 17 BYU. Good ol BYU. Michael Jackson’s favorite university… lmao. The 2017 Alabama game was absolutely maddening as well as many others have said as well. Gets old being us and earning victories only to have an official 17 the whole game. I’ll come up with more believe me. Also the umpire called a completely 17ed up super regional vs Georgia just to throw that out there. Quite literally influencing the outcome. Even after we’d thrown strike 3 twice. Until the hitter got the perfect pitch to hammer. That’s not nearly all.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.
So…fun fact. The morning of that game, the misses and I went to Chic fil A in Auburn. There were zebras eating with Auburn fans. As a referee myself, I emailed the SEC Dir of officiating to tell him that wasn’t a good look. He replied promising me it wasn’t the refs as they were already at the stadium and that it was likely THE CHAIN CREW!!!I'll add in the Auburn "first down" that was 2" short.
Maybe not the worst but, a game against bama during the Mullen era. We punted and the returner caught it cleanly. The ref decided we were too close and gave a 15 yard penalty. Mullen rightfully lost his **** and got another 15 yards tacked on. I've never been more upset with a ref.
The 2001 BYU game is the winner on overall body of work. There might be individual incidents that rate, but for the entirety of a competition, that's the one.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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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.
2017 Alabama is the 1st one I thought of.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.
A famous game in Tiger Stadium. Only got three total downs and were forced to kick a short FG, which cost the 4-point difference in the game. I remember listening to that one on the radio.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.