Well in last nights game, the grabbing was called PI. It was obviously a technique taught and the officials called it PI. Defensive Holding was called once or twice when the ball was not yet in the air as well. Regardless, Baylor was penalized because of a technique used by all of their DBs, whether or not you believe it should be considered a penalty or not.

Baylor was the victim a couple times that i saw of blatant pass interference by UCF's DBs that wasn't called. There needs to be more consistency in those calls.

it's all subjective

I saw 2 PI's called against Baylor. Forgive me but I did not watch the whole game. I don't like any teams that cannot tackle or play any semblance of defense. One PI should have been called, the other was ridiculous. The DB held his ground while the WR tried to go through him. Since the WR was not permitted to go right to the ball without having to go through the DB, it was called PI.

Why even have a DB. Since when does the DB have no right to the ball or his spot on the field. He didnt take the UCF guy down, but the UCF guy did make sure he threw himself to the turf. It was just terrible. This is not football, this is basketball.

I don't disagree that it needs to be more consistent, but you will get more benefit of the doubt for incidental contact or a no call when you don't have a handful of jersey.

The other thing to consider is the officiating crews are from different leagues. This was an SEC officiating crew, maybe the Big 12 officiating crews allowed the grabbing and didn't call the penalty. Who knows, there was a significant discrepancy in number of penalties though.

I just wish it wasn't so subjective. When in the same game a ticky-tack PI is called and a mugging isn't, it gets really annoying.

Baylor is the most penalized team out there.

And by the way rED, I thought the Aggies won.

If you listen to the gushers at ESPN talk, you'd think TAM beat Florida State. They were life and death to beat the mighty Blue Devils of Duke, a team they were favored by double digits over.

Johnny Football haters, they are legion.....

They don't reside at ESPN......the Duke QB played every bit as well as Manziel, but no gushing from them about him.

Yes. I thought ATM looked pretty bad. Basically without Johnny Failball, they are probably at sub .500 team. They have no defense (probably normal for Texas teams based on the bowl games) and lack physicality.

What got me the most was they gave up record yardage to Duke. Duke! This is not basketball, this is Duke. Don't get me wrong, this Duke team was better than any Duke teams I have ever seen, but it is still Duke.

Yes, it is comprised of those who think objectively. It is also, most of America. Johnny brought it on himself.

ha, ha nice going Alabama

They didn't want to be there Peepers. They weren't motivated, and neither was Georgia, but luckily the rest have been.

too bad for them

I have to disagree. Georgia put in the effort. They just were not at 100%.

Bama was just outcoached and their players clearly were not prepared. The O-line brothers were manhandled all night and OU executed the perfect game plan offensively. Bama has problems with mobile QBs and teams who can get the ball outside. Ha-Ha and McCarron played with everything they had. The O-line just had no answer for Striker and Grissom. Bama had shown this weakness all year. aTm and AU showed OU what they needed to do offensively to win and OU paid attention. If aTm had any defense they would have beaten Bama.

Very solid game by OU and a victory to be proud of.

And for the record, last night was the ONLY time in my life I have ever actively pulled for Bama. I learned my lesson.

Nebraska was not 100% either so the excuse is a little lame. Nebraska was missing their #1 QB, and their #1 offensive lineman. They got limited play from their #2 receiver as he has been hurt all year with a hamstring injury. Their D Line consisted of Thad Randal who is pretty much hurt drinking water and was hurt 3 times in the game, yet he continued. Their 2nd string QB, Tommy Armstrong was playing with a sprained ankle. Ed Cunningham (the announcer) conveniently left all of this information out.

To compound things, Nebraska was playing with 4 Freshman starting on defense and one D Line spot that had no backup. On offense, their starting RB had been injured all year because he is the only one who takes snaps.

Georgia was certainly beat up. So was Nebraska. The difference to me was that the field conditions were not condusive to a rushing attack (for either team). Nebraska had some luck on their side in the win, but also deserved it.

Oklahoma beat Alabama. No bones about it. Alabama's defense got butchered last night. Duke outplayed ATM. Yes Duke. LSU and South Carolina beat crummy B1G opponents by a combined..... 17 points. The SEC has been higher ranked or favored in every game. The fact is that the SEC is not living up to their superiority this week. The bowl games have been hard to guess but my thought are that Free Shoes should beat up Auburn.

It was a joke. That is always the excuse for SEC fan when they lose the Sugar Bowl.

Well I wasn't able to catch much of the game but for the life of me I swear that every time Nebraska made a good play it was because Georgia was injured, not because Nebraska was any good. It was annoying.

During the Stanford/MSU game Herbstriet made a call on a first down from the Stanford back. It was Stanfords third down back and he made a good open field move to get a first down. Herbstriet claimed that the MSU was not used to seeing backs who could move like that because the B1G does not have dynamic running backs like that.

Unfortunately 2 of the All American 3 deep running backs are B1G and I would say that the Stanford guy would have been no better than 6th best in the B1G behind Hyde, Adullah, Mark, Gordon, White, and Langdon.

I wasn't making an excuse. Merely pointing out they played hard so the loss was not due to them being unmotivated. They didn't play good enough to win and Nebraska did.

I think Georgia should have won, but didn't.

I think this bowl season is proving an important point: it's about individual teams, not what conference you belong to. Every conference has had its up and down moments in the bowls which proves when it comes game time, it's just your team taking the field, not your entire conference.

can't speak for the other SEC teams, but LSU's QB had played all of 1/2 game this season, true freshman that had to play when the starting QB tore his ACL in the final game.

Alabama was outplayed, plain and simple, didn't appear to me they weren't trying or didn't want to be there.

A&M struggled but came through.

I don't know any team that gets to this point of the season that doesn't have injuries, missing players, players that are playing injured, aren't 100%, etc.