When in doubt…

Phantom PI on McCreary, targeting on Smoke instead of Bennett, no PI right before the half. You say it doesn’t matter because you forgot about it by the 2nd half, but that’s at least a 10 point swing that definitely would’ve mattered, instead it killed anything Auburn had going.

— War Blogle (@WarBlogle) October 9, 2021

Your team got blown up on both lines of scrimmage, you finished the game with a 97.97 passer rating, but if only the refs had been fair:

Nix lobbied with a referee after the play, and proceeded to sound off further in his postgame interview.

“The guy completely grabs him,” Nix said of the sequence in the end zone. “I thought it should’ve definitely been a pass interference. It’s just stuff like that that we don’t ever get that changes the game.

“Obviously, if that would’ve been them, they probably would’ve called it. But that’s just part of the game and part of the rivalry.”

When asked to elaborate, Nix said it was par for the course that Auburn would be denied a pass-interference call in a big game, and that maybe his teammates in the secondary should have played more aggressive on the ball, if penalties weren’t going to be called often.

“I always feel like there are some questionable calls in big moments,” Nix said. “Obviously, there were a few today that I thought could have gone differently. I thought the one to (Capers) there at the end of the half, that was just kind of one of those judgment calls that was tough. It’s hard to make a play on the ball when they’re that aggressive.

“So I guess the officials were letting us play today. We should’ve been more aggressive on our end, I guess, and seen how they would’ve responded to that.”

Makes sense, Bo.  After all, your team was responding so well to everything else in that game.