Refs wack excuse for tush push

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“(The line judge) said he'd be killed if he would have blown the whistle for the play being stopped,” Kiffin said, “even though it appeared to be stopped.”

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Once the score was allowed, Kiffin began pleading LSU’s case to the game’s officiating crew. His main objection to the call, he told reporters on Sunday, was that the circumstances of the play shouldn’t matter. If the officials would’ve ruled that LSU had stopped Minchey’s progress, say, on a first down at midfield, then they should do the same on the goal line. “Don’t not blow it because it was such a big play,” Kiffin said.

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Officials also decided that Kentucky coach Will Stein had called timeout before one of his players jumped offsides on the two-point conversion attempt that eventually decided the game.

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Kiffin said that decision was “really upsetting to me,” in part because he “struggled” to communicate with the officials all game. He does not think that the Wildcats would’ve tried the two-point conversion had they been flagged for a false start. But Kiffin’s bigger gripe was with the touchdown Kentucky scored in the waning seconds of the first half. “The rules are the rules,” Kiffin said, “so if you see it that way, then see it that way. That's my complaint with it. It all comes down to just blowing the whistle, so it is what it is.”

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