re: Was It Just Me or did Texas Get Away with an Awful Lot of Holding

Lets say on paper, yardage, possible points scored, TOP, the game was almost even. If I'm a pollster watching the game, and the obvious holding by the Texas LT would have been called, it would have been an obvious blowout by LSU. That might account for LSU rising in the polls while Texas slipped. Former refs have admitted that holding can be called every play.

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Texas=DBU, what a fricking joke!!!

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Neither team deserved that moniker after Saturday.

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In other words they’re in more trouble for calling holding than not calling it when it happens. I think that it’s a horrible way to grade refs.

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That is a fabulous way to grade refs. It discourages them from making ticky tack calls which ruins the game. I don't want to see a flag fest. If they are letting some holding happen than get your linemen to hold too.

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I stopped with "the refs aren't being fair" nonsense when I was about 15 years old. It's taken these refs decades to get where they are - they aren't going to slant their calls.

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You are right but you are wasting your time. There are losers in every fanbase, and those losers think there is a conspiracy against their team. There was an Texas woman sitting behind me. She thought the Marshall play on our last possesion was a fumble. Even with the still shot of his elbow and wrist on the ground displayed in freeze frame on the big screen she still refused to believe it was anything but a fumble. I pointed out that the Texas fans were not even booing, but nope, she still thought it was a fumble and said, "All of America saw it. Millions of people across the USA saw proof of the cheating." It was some funny shite.

It’s that way intentionally. Easier to influence the outcome.

CHAISSON was absolutely held on multiple plays. You could see the OT grabbing his jersey and locking in on his pads.
By the same token, I saw our OL holding as well...at least there was uniformity in the refs allowing the grabbing.

I can't say enough about the pin point passing of Burrow and the hands of the wide receivers....the RB's need some work on their pass catching focus.

Chase, Marshall and Jefferson are going to be great pros in my opinion. So will Burrow.

That’s awful, and people are complaining that we waved goodbye, horns down and flag planted.

That was my initial reaction as well. I also was curious about Jefferson's first TD catch cause it looked like the DB was head hunting in the end zone.