Unconquered

Tom, you've probably never watch Alabama play this year. Saban teaches his players to help the opposing team up off the field and dust 'em off. So when the very sensitive but caring ref saw Telvin beat his own chest then the ref had no choice but to throw the flag for the unthoughtfulness.

Thankfully, the game was already determined, if not I would have blown a gasket.

I thought they did a good job other than that call and the bench warning garbage but we got some good calls too - XR got away with a PI in the endzone on the fake punt drive. Also they had some balls, the acc refs would've overturned the reverse fumble and played it safe IMO

Also there were a few spots where I remember thinking they weren't very generous to NIU when marking the ball.

The unsportsmanlike penalty on Jimbo. The ref followed Jimbo after Jimbo turned to walk away, and THEN the ref threw the flag on him. If the ref can't take complaints or criticisim, he should probably go back to door greeter @ walmart. On top of that, he basically badgered Jimbo into the flag by following him once Jimbo turned away.

Head scratchers for sure. Overall I thought it was a solid officiating job.

This was the biggest BS call Ive ever seen for the reason above. The biggest reason though is this is not baseball or basketball where you cannot say something to the ref. Jimbo was fine with what he did especially after the ref followed him. Throw a flag beacuse a Coach is giving it to you. BS