re: SEC Refs protecting top ranked teams

SEC officiating is becoming a joke across the country. Other fans, coaches and teams watch these games outside of the SEC. Fans of other major conferences in particular have even asked me about it after watching SEC games. In the last 3 weeks there have been games each week involving Florida and Alabama in which officiating is so suspect that the theory of protecting the highest ranked teams for the sake of the BCS Championship game is becoming a legitimate question. LSU - Florida and the non offensive pass interference touchdown call along with consecutive offside calls against LSU on third down that continued drives for Florida. Florida vs Arkansas? enough said, Bama vs South Carolina with Ingram going off for 247 yards where obvious holding was ignored throughout the game and Bama vs Tennessee this weekend and a non celebration call when the penalty was obvious and the disparity of penalties called on one team vs the other when the team getting all the penalties is among the least penalized teams in the conference. And to take off the purple and gold glasses, the celebration call against Georgia vs LSU on their last touchdown was a joke as was the make up call against Scott. This is an embarrassment. The SEC ivory tower should be ashamed, these officials should be ashamed and embarrassed and when those outside our own conference are talking about it really becomes an embarrassment.