you really believe that's how it works? The SEC would never be so blatant.

Obviously with the SEC offices in Birmingham, and with so many refs being Bama fans, and with their REF abilities being judged by the Birmingham/bama officials, they just naturally see, whether consciously or subconsciously, things on the field a certain way which is to Bamas favor,

so if an opposing team is getting close late in a game they will subconsciously start to panic and look much harder for a call in bamas favor. Such as a timely drive killing call to swing the momentum back into the good guys (bamas) favor.

This also applys to Auburn and even Florida to some extent for some reason.

Occasionally, once the bias becomes much to obvious, they may call some random play in LSU's favor just to give themselves some defense and something that they can point to to try to show that they aren't biased.

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Posted by Tiger Tracker

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Posted on 10/27/17 at 1:45 am to boxcar willie

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so if an opposing team is getting close late in a game they will subconsciously start to panic and look much harder for a call in bamas favor. Such as a timely drive killing call to swing the momentum back into the good guys (bamas) favor.

This also applys to Auburn and even Florida to some extent for some reason.

Occasionally, once the bias becomes much to obvious, they may call some random play in LSU's favor just to give themselves some defense and something that they can point to to try to show that they aren't biased.

Do you really believe this is how "subconscious officiating" works. Bottom line is all refs have some slight bias, but more times than not it's a bias for the team that is supposed to be "better". That's why it's not something isolated to just Bama teams or even SEC teams for that matter.

I posted this link last season and was crucified by the fans here. Bottom line is it's all about the money generating schools with the best playoff hopes. That's the real bias in NCAAF. They need to create a separate officiating office they report to which is unrelated to any conference. It's the only way to improve the officiating and help solve this issue, imo.

Eta: all the posters here saying well look at all these bad calls against lsu are failing to remember ones for lsu. It's fan bias. It's much easier to remember a hold that cost us the game than a hold that won us a game.

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