The SEC needs to look into this like the NFL is doing.

SEC already has a rule that officials cannot work games involving their alma mater. The problem is the influence the league office has while being located in Boiirmingham. Thus BAMA gets a disproportionate number of calls or non calls which favor them. Compare Devon Whites's targeting call vs Mack Wilson's non targeting against Tennessee.

Whether biased or not officials are cautious to make decisions which will bring rebuke from teh Alabama based office.

BAMA also gets preference on reviews, especially now with the centralized review process. In addition the decisionn to not review questionable plays also provides BAMA with

BAMA also gets the advantage of questionable calls which are reviewed. Recall the infamous Patrick Peterson interception.

Until the league office i smoved ou tof Birmingham that advantage will continue

The Patrick Peterson interception was miraculously overturned by who? Tom Ritter (an alum of Alabama). My entire point.

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Until the league office is moved out of Birmingham And A COMPLETE staff change, that advantage will continue

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Tom Ritter (an alum of Alabama).

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No, he's not. That's a Rant myth that won't die.

Ritter went to college in Texas and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

You're probably thinking of SEC Coordinator of Football Officials, Steve Shaw, who is an Alabama graduate.

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Get good and the calls will suddenly start going your way.

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make all the sanctimonious comments you want, but there is incontreverteble evidence of the favorable treatment they receive. There is a high probability that had BAMA intercepted the pass as Peterson did the review would have been determined differntly. Lets say it occurred in 2012 with LSU leading by 4 and about 6 minutes left. Do you think they would not have been awarded the ball?
( Spare me, I know they had a winning drive at the end , but my point is no one knew that at the time and the interception would have been called).

How about the abomination at the end of 2014 when the Tigers recovered a fumble on the 7 and were poised to run out the clock and likely kick a winning FG when the officials flag only LSU during a shoving match when all VAdal was doing was tryin gto get the BAMA guy to turn loose of his leg.

How about the multiple holds on Jalen Hurs TD run to win the 2016 game? They might still be trying to break a tie had any one of those holds been called.

The old adage that calls sometimes go for you and sometimes against you would be easier to accept if BAMA was on the wrong end of those big decisions sometimes, but you can't name one time where that has occurred.

The number of key players being ejected for targeting when their teams are playing BAMA or the week before is staggering. Yet Mack Wilson gets away with breaking the Tenn. QB's jaw and Shyheim Carter clearly should have been cited targeting Jared Stidham in their Auburn game.

It simply happens too often to be random.

Exactly! You nailed it and summed up it up precisely!

The refs are not why we continue to get butt fricked by Bama every year.

Not to mention bama fans and alum are inbred low down dirty swine and are way more capable of s*** like that than anybody

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No, he's not. That's a Rant myth that won't die.

Ritter went to college in Texas and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

You're probably thinking of SEC Coordinator of Football Officials, Steve Shaw, who is an Alabama graduate.

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You sir, are correct, but also omitting the word on the street that Tom Ritters daughter was currently attending, and is now a graduate of the University of Alabama (home of the period elephants)

Whole Thread on Ritter theories

Also, says he owns a company that does the decals or is in some way financially connected to Bama

I said this a long time ago. All leagues should move to a policy that allows other league officials to official every other conferences big games. Make it mandatory. The typical SEC game ok not so much but the big games that mean something and have a lot invested shouldn't be officiated by men that are from that area or have any bias what so ever.

They can deny the bias all they want but it's completely obvious to everyone that it exists. It isn't fair to the game or these college players. That alone could be a recruiting tool if these players know they will get away with much more at one team then they would at another. It could be as simple as two official believe one HC is just a better coach then the other and look at one team more bc of this. I see this happening all across the SEC. It's not just LSU but especially against LSU. Those calls that A&M got would have never been called at LSU. There's no way those officials would have stopped the game or even noticed that the QB was down at the end of the game. It would have been over, called the end of the game and then looked at later.

They would have just said oops sorry LSU, we fricked up sorry about this one but we'll try to get it right next time and we take the L. IF we would've even gotten that. I truly believe that. No way they stop the frickn game to review something once the clock hit zero's, give us ample time to calm down and come up with a play. Just look at the Auburn game a few years back. They didn't even give us time to snap the ball, never went to replay to see if the officials or anyone else slowed the game down and the game was just over.

What they need to do is get rid of officials and go to cameras only. We don't need officials on every damn play. Have cameras watching the field and stop play when the cameras see cheating going on. Keep a few on the field simply to help the game move on and not call penalties.