re: 10 Worst Calls in College Football

i liked this jewel about ole miss and bama

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As it turns out, the game had no impact on the big picture in college football because both teams went on to an embarrassingly pathetic season

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You talking about the leverage call?

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It wasn't a leverage call, which as I understand it, means that the player uses another player to gain more height on a jump or more penetration on a rush to block a field goal. It was landing on another player after jumping into the air. It was supposed to prevent defenders running toward the line, diving over it and landing on the opposing players, possibly hurting them. In this case, our guy jumped and landed on our own side of the line, and the only person he made contact with when he landed was our own player. Never crossing the line of scrimmage and not touching an Auburn player on landing, he was not supposed to be called for the penalty. However, the rules committee (which included Nick Saban) had refused Saban's request for a guide to interpretation that would have cleared up this very issue ahead of time on the grounds that no official could be so stupid or so crooked as to call the penalty in that situation. Well, the ref at Auburn proved them wrong and called the penalty, deciding the outcome of the game in Auburn's favor. The week following the game, the NCAA issued the very interpretation guide that Saban had requested when the rule was passed. So, that play is and will always remain the only one in NCAA history in which that penalty was called under those circumstances.

Only at Auburn.

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It was later discovered that the replay official was not only an Auburn alumnus, but was also a big booster to the program.
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WOW! I believe it just never heard it before, seems like it would have been well published around BR

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I read that. That can't be true. If it was, the head of SEC officiating needs to be dismissed and Slive has some explaining to do.

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Of course it's true. Of course the head of SEC officiating needs to be dismissed. Of course Slive has explaining to do. But, in typical SEC form, nobody gets dismissed, nobody explains anything, nobody even admits that any mistakes were made, and the cheating continues.

Corrupt officiating is one of the larger threats to the future of the SEC. Once the public begins to realize that practically no result in an SEC football game can be relied on because of blatant cheating by refs, it will severely undermine the credibility of the league and all its teams, even the ones that aren't cheating.

Of course, corruption and cheating at the schools themselves is also a huge threat to the SEC's future well-being. And care to guess which school leads the conference in that area, too?

Cheating and corruption are the oldest and most revered tradtions at Auburn.

When all these Auburn plays come up in lists, it always suprises me that no one mentions Auburn's game winning drive in 04. They were around the 20 with time running before Campbell's 4th down touchdown pass. Auburn fumbled after a reception and with the ball heading out of bounds, Travis Daniels reached, had both hands wrapped on the ball and a foot in bounds. The game would have been over.

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Who is the "replay offical" in the game next week?

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Not sure but don't plan on any special 'gifts' from this guy.

"They were around the 20 with time running before Campbell's 4th down touchdown pass. Auburn fumbled after a reception and with the ball heading out of bounds, Travis Daniels reached, had both hands wrapped on the ball and a foot in bounds. The game would have been over."

And Campbell makes touchdown throw and becomes hero.... and we get his crappy Aubie arse playing for the Redskins and ruining the team

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It wasn't a leverage call, which as I understand it, means that the player uses another player to gain more height on a jump or more penetration on a rush to block a field goal. It was landing on another player after jumping into the air. It was supposed to prevent defenders running toward the line, diving over it and landing on the opposing players, possibly hurting them. In this case, our guy jumped and landed on our own side of the line, and the only person he made contact with when he landed was our own player. Never crossing the line of scrimmage and not touching an Auburn player on landing, he was not supposed to be called for the penalty. However, the rules committee (which included Nick Saban) had refused Saban's request for a guide to interpretation that would have cleared up this very issue ahead of time on the grounds that no official could be so stupid or so crooked as to call the penalty in that situation. Well, the ref at Auburn proved them wrong and called the penalty, deciding the outcome of the game in Auburn's favor. The week following the game, the NCAA issued the very interpretation guide that Saban had requested when the rule was passed. So, that play is and will always remain the only one in NCAA history in which that penalty was called under those circumstances.

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it was called against Washington State 2 weeks later, than adjusted. So actually, it was made twice in the same season. Not much better, and it doesn't make it a better rule, but it was called again.

I'm not defending what happened at Auburn the last 2 trips. However I also have been unimpressed with every article I've read on bleacher report.

The claim in this article about the replay guy being an Auburn booster is nothing but pure shite talking.

Consider the source. Everything I've read on this site has been unsubstantiated crap.