I have quite a few friends who attend Auburn. I also have a handful of other friends who, through some sort of allegiance, are fans of Auburn. It may have been that they were drunk, but all I heard from them, from the end of the game until around 3 am, was how the officials were "on our side."

You would think that a 36-0 victory would be a fairly solid, undisputable victory, but i felt the need to fire up the ol' DVR and review the game myself.

I watched the entire game and I picked out a total of three penalties that were not called against Alabama, and one was very disputable.

The first came at the 14:53 mark of the 2nd qtr. when Kodi Burns threw a deep pass into double coverage. Kareem Jackson MAY HAVE interfered with the pass to a certain extent, but honestly, the coverage was so tight on him that I'm surprised he was able to breathe. The pass wasn't really that dead-on either.

The second came at the 8:42 mark of the second qtr, when Alabama attempted to block an Auburn punt and wound up roughing the kicker. Even the commentators made a remark about it, but no flag was thrown. Regaurdless, (I may have to watch the game again) I'm fairly sure that it was a third and long situation, and a penalty wouldn't have even helped them here.

The last came...sometime during the third quarter (At this point, I had sort of lost interest in my review, but was carrying on simply to prove my point). It was very evident that pass interference should have been called. There was definitely some jersey grabbing, shoving, and hand slapping. I honestly think they didn't throw a flag on this one because the pass rush was just too hard. Burns would've thrown it INC anyway.

The other thing I had to hear about was the timeout called "during the snap" that prevented Auburn's field goal at the end of the first half. I watched this at least a dozen times in every speed I could. As far as I could tell, Coach Saban called timeout before the ball was in motion. I mean, i really studied that snap.

So, hypothetically speaking, Auburn could have prevented three turnovers. Since they are 13 of 35 in red zone scoring, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and credit them with a touchdown (Remember that this is all hypothetical). Also, I will decuct 14 points from Alabama's score, as a result of them hypothetically not producing the turnovers. In addition, i'll give them the benefit of that field goal.

So, even if all the barners are right, we're still looking at a 22-10 game. It would have been a solid, convincing victory either way.