Florida’s Free Field Goal and Mystery Yard
It’s well documented that the Refs aided the Florida win over the Razorbacks yesterday. A couple points that have been left out is the field goal that shouldn’t have counted (forced a punt) and the first down that gave the gators the chance to run the clock out on the Hogs.
A couple plays after the no call on offensive pass interference which prevented Arkansas Taking possession with an interception / or at least moving Florida out of Field Goal Range…
Tim Tebow ran the ball just inside the 20 yard line but was given an extra yard which gave the Gators the first down with 0:41 left in the game.
Credit for the pictures go to Pecos Hog of hogville.
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Joshua S.
ok yea ARK got screwed on this one. big time. but if mallet could throw a freaking ball and if Tejada had been on his game, none of this would have mattered. Arkansas should have been up by two touchdowns before this even happened…
Joshua S.
matt not everyone in the entire country disagrees with you. just arkansas fans.
roger stafford
there are a lot of folks who have commented on the officiating who are not Arkansas fans. The CBS announcers were not real complimentary of the officiating on Saturday and lots of people have commented on this and other sites. Check the game coverage and hit some more sites dealing with the game. There are plenty that are not Arkansas booster sites.
JackM
Those pictures and the conclusions are hilarious.
1. Watch the game video, the snap is underway when the clock hits zero. But, don’t let the facts get in the way of your agenda
2. The “mystery yard” is even more hilarious. You can’t tell whether his knee is actually on the ground by that picture. However, if you watch the game video, you would see the claims of that picture are bogus.
Sorry to see you flush your credibility down the toilet so easily.
roger stafford
Watched the game twice already and the FG is close, but the tebow first down was bogus and should have been reviewed upstairs and the right spot given on the play. whats the point of instant replay if it is not used when it should be.
More crucial to the game is the “phantom” P.I. call and the non call on OPI on florida’s last drive. florida player did exactly what he has been coached to do and tacked the Arkansas db to break up the game ending interception. Well done by Cooper. Inexplicable is the no call by the officiating crew after the phantom call on Arkansas the drive before. at least be consistent on your bad calls.
I am an Arkansas fan and wanted my team to win, no doubt. More crucial to me is the fact that i am a father with kids involved in youth sports. I try to teach them that fair play and hard work are rewarded on the field. That is not the message that the SEC sent on Saturday. That is not the message they want to send i am sure, so accountability is needed. This same crew influenced the end of the LSU-Georgia game as well with their poor officiating. I know they called the same penalty on LSU after their TD, but that was too late as Georgia had less than 20 seconds on the clock verses LSU’s two and a half minutes. Hold these guys accountable just like anyone else who holds a job and doesn’t do his/her job.
David T
You can debate where Tebow’s knee landed, but there is no question the CBS yellow line is one full yard past the chains. There was so much the officials screwed up on Florida’s favor that I hate to see fans get caught up in something that wasn’t actually their fault.
roger stafford
The mystery yard really has nothing to do with the CBS yellow line. where tebow hit the ground and the position of the ball in relation to that contact is clearly not where the official spotted the ball. the ball is still “mysteriously” move forward nearly a yard. The yellow line is not the issue here, it is where the ball was marked when tebow hits the ground.
Al
Rogers Redding , head of SEC refs, is a Ga Tech Grad. So was the previous head of SEC refs. Ga fans hate Fla and both of these SOB have had their gunsites on Ga for years.
SEC refs are sorry to begin with, but they definitely influence games and you should watch games that you don’t have a dog in and watch where they spot the ball, call for holding calls, personal fouls, etc, etc to influence games for their favorites. It happens in about half the games. And it ruins the enjoyment of watching the SEC. Same thing happens in SEC basketball. Home team generally is spotted 10 points by the refs. I’m disgusted with the SEC. Arkansas was ripped off. And why doesn’t Mr. Hero, Tim Teebow ever speak up and ask for fairness and condemn the favortism that is shown to him and his team.
roger stafford
its time for everyone to quit blaming Tebow and the florida players. they did exactly what they should have done. Take advantage of the calls given to them. While Tebow is over-rated, he is a winner and knows how to motivate his team mates to be great when they need to be. We needed to stop them and we did not, period.
the blame is with the sec for having no accountability for its officials and with the Hogs for leaving 34 points on the field unscored. If we take care of business early, then florida does not have the opportunity to win the game with officials help. it is a blowout and we cruise into the top 25 and stop the florida win streak. We have to catch TD passes. It killed us against Bama too!
Go Hogs! Beat ole miss and houston nutts
Michelle
you know it was really funny how the gators had to practically play us AND their offense. they just HANDED us the ball with all those fumbles. we wouldn’t have even come close to winning with out them!!
Rogers Hog Fan
The calls were definately going for FL but there were other reasons we lost. Missed FG’s, dropped passes, bad passes. I do agree, however, that someone needs to hold officials to a higher standard. They should never determine the outcome of any game.
What really upsets me more than any of this is the fact that every comment on the TX game is about how bad they looked, how Colt didn’t help his Heisman chances barely winning and how TX barely won the game. So how does FL stay #1 in the BCS when they “barely” beat a team they were supposed to beat by 25? And how does the great TT still look like the front runner for the Heisman? What am I missing here?
alison
Thinking that those refs should be taken off SEC games all together the Hogs so had that game won and we lost b/c of some sorry ass refs that were probally paid off!
clint
well lets just say the next TIM TEBLOW has another tittie baby news conf.the words that should come out of his mouth should be YES WE DID GET OUR ASSES KICKED BY ARKANSAS BUT IF IT WASNT FOR THAT (BJ) AT HALF TIME WE WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN GIVING THOSE EXTRA 4 OR 5 YARDS AT THE END OF THE GAME TO BE ABLE TO KICK FIELD AND WIN!!!!!! WHOOOO PIG SHOOOIE GO HOGS GO.
TF121
Get over it, hogs were holding all day and not called.
roger stafford
so was florida. there is holding on every offensive play in the game. florida benefits greatly from the non calls against them. (kinda like duke in basketball)
the real issue is the timing of the penalties and the placement of the calls and non calls. Plus the number of calls that are made against each team. How many calls against florida? how many against Arkansas? there was a big disparity in the number of calls in the game.
And as an added incentive to all the conspiracy theories, the SEC announced todya that they may not hold an SEC championship game this year if
florida and Alabama are still 1-2 and undefeated so that the two can play in the BCS national championship game. Huuuuuuum! sounds like a great reason to keep florida undefeated with the officiating debacle.
roger stafford
On a good note on this topic, how bout our defense. That group has grown up and decided not to be the scapegoats anymore. This is not the same group that played in the Georgia and Alabama games.
I was extremely proud of our guys on Saturday. We put Tebow down as many time as he has been down all year. We tackled well, no 52 yard runs after being hit by four defenders in the backfield. With the exception of the 77 yard pass play, our guys looked good.
Alex, just keep kicking bro, it will go through. bad days happen to all of us.
Go Hogs! Kick the crap out of ole miss and nutts.
boo hoo the refs cheated
I guess the officials made Arkansas miss the go ahead field goal too.
Some fans are just stupid.
UF doubled the first down total of Arkansas and out rushed and out passed them.
All of that with 4 turnovers and yet some fans what to cry that the officials took the game from Arkansas.
Grow up
roger stafford
You out gained Arkansas by a whopping 34 yards. Not what i would call dominating by the “#1″ team in the nation. Weren’t ya’ll 25 point favorites? First downs really means nothing especially when time of possession is almost the same, so that argument is lame also.
No, officiating did not make us miss field goals or drop touchdown passes, but hard hits and strong, in your face all day defense did force turnovers. so quit acting like florida was just running out there and laying the ball on the ground for Arkansas to recover.
The calls at the end of the game changed the outcome and anyone who isn’t a florida fan knows that. Heck, ya’ll know it too but your florida fans and you would never admit it. What if the SEC decides that it likes Bama over florida for the SEC championship (if it even gets played. There is talk of no championship game if florida and Bama are still undefeated, so they can play in the BCS National Championship game against each other. Huum, thats a good reason to keep florida undefeated, isn’t it?)
If the tables had been turned and florida had been the ones screwed, you would be hot too and you would have good reason to be hot.
Jim Stewart
Of course you would say boo-ho!! Your powerful forida gators almost got their ass beat by a lower tier SEC team! Can’t wait to watch Alabama kick Florida’s ass by 2 touchdowns. We’ll see who’s boo-hoing then! haha
HogfAN1
You just cant stand it that you won by the refs cheating, that you didnt win the game fair and square. Your the cry baby boy…..waaa….waaa….lol……your champion gators arent all that. we should have won that game by 14 points. So why dont you shut your mouth and go away
Chan_8
As my football coach once said, “Control the controllable. Play well enough to where the refs don’t have the chance to take it out of your hands.”
Bad calls are everywhere in every game! And yes, they can cost team’s a win, but it’s part of football!
Sean
Actually..Refs can be punished for their mistakes by missing post season games (i.e. championships and bowls and such).
KENNY
People, The SEC will do nothing and say nothing about this because they need two teams competing to go to the SEC championship game. This is about nothing but money and I would guess that these officials were told to do what they could because I have never seen a game with so many blatant calls against one team.