re: ANOTHER LOOK: LSU's costly penalties vs. MSU

Of the penalties in those clips, I thought the Hawkins and Clapp ones were the only ones that were close calls, and even they weren't really wrong calls by the officials. The catch that wasn't a catch was a bad call, IMO. The clip in your post (bad spot on first down) was a bad spot, but it probably didn't matter all that much. It was 1st and 10 when they ran that play, so if the spot had been done right, they would have had 2nd and 1 and probably still would have converted, although maybe some more time would have run off the clock. They still could have spiked it and only lost a few seconds, and would have had 3rd and 4th down to convert the 1 yard.

I don't think the officials did us any favors in the game, but I can't really say we got screwed, except maybe on the catch/no catch. But it was the first game and mistakes like that happen in the first game. Hopefully, we can clean up the penalties next week.