re: Are u more concerned with bama or the refs?

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you’d have to be blind or a fool to deny that the refs are in their pocket

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Here lies the problem.

"Unlike in NCAA basketball, which draws referees from pools overseen by groups of conferences, most football referees are hired, trained, rewarded, and disciplined by individual conferences. That means officials are entrusted with making decisions that could hurt their employers—as with the call in the Clemson-FSU game. Clemson was the ACC team with the better shot at making the College Football Playoff and the financial bonanza it dangles.
Do College Football Refs Have It In for Your Team? - There may be incest in big-time college football officiating

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In the fourth quarter of the Oct. 29 football game between No. 3 Clemson and 12th-ranked Florida State, the Seminoles were thinking upset. FSU led 28-26 when star tailback Dalvin Cook ripped off a 50-yard run into Clemson territory.

Then came a penalty flag for an illegal block, negating the play. FSU Coach Jimbo Fisher stormed the sideline, screaming at the officials, dropping an apparent F-bomb. Then came another flag, for unsportsmanlike conduct. FSU punted. Clemson escaped with a 37-34 win.

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He spent more than a year parsing almost 39,000 fouls called in games involving NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the 2012-2015 seasons. His research finds “ample evidence of biases among conference officials,” including “conference officials showing partiality towards teams with the highest potential to generate revenue for their conference.”

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I don't know how much the refs make but I would hate to be the one that allowed an upset and cost my conference $20 million bucks. I would be nervous as hell about my job security.

How about we just worry about scoring, period.

I don’t doubt that plays some part in it but in the case of Alabama and to lesser degree Auburn there’s just too much visual proof week in and week out to ignore that they always get calls. This happens for Ohio State, Notre Dame and USC as well so it’s not exclusive to our conference but there’s no doubt it happens.

Maybe I'm missing something on the FSU-clem play because he did actually hold the son of Clem. Watch the FSU fullback grab his ankle from behind as he goes down.

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Agreed. Only losers blame the refs. Refs make mistakes, but overall it all balances out.

Since we haven't beat them since 2011, we look awful if we complain about the refs.

It ain't the refs.

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For the most part it isn't the refs but to act like they don't play a part in outcomes of games is just naive.

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Maybe I'm missing something on the FSU-clem play because he did actually hold the son of Clem. Watch the FSU fullback grab his ankle from behind as he goes down.

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From ESPN on the FSU - Clemson game and penalty:

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but an official called Stevenson for an illegal block below the waist.

"It was ridiculous," Fisher said. "It was not a chop, it was a not chop. I will tell you what: You hold coaches accountable, you hold players accountable, hold the damn officials accountable. It is garbage, and then to call another penalty on the sideline is even more garbage. It's cowardly, gutless and wrong.

When in the open field, players are allowed to only block below the waist if the initial contact comes from the front.

The penalty had nothing to do with a hold. They called an illegal chop block. If that is an illegal block, every college game has a whole hell of a lot more than they call in each game.

Fisher said the officials could not give him an explanation for the penalty.

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If you actually read the article that you linked, it says that SEC officials "are the least biased in the Power 5." So, according to an actual systematic, data-based analysis, this issue is less a problem in the SEC than anywhere else. In addition, the article specifically disavows the idea that any biases result from pressure from the conference offices. To the extent that they exist (and the article says they do, albeit to a modest extent), they are probably sub-conscious, a result of officials just "expecting" certain teams to be good.

As a 3 TD dog we need to understand what that means before we start blaming officials pregame.