I disagree.For the officials to have ruled that play a safety (which, by rule, it wasn't) would have ranked on the referee travesty scale somewhere below Preston Gothard's 1983 touchdown catch at Penn State, but probably above the improperly reversed PI call on the Dallas Cowboys this past weekend. Even if it had been a blown call, if that's a significant contributing factor to our blowing a 15-point lead, we need new players, new coaches, or both.
I thought the officiating in this game was better than the standard performance of a Wagers- or Ritter-led SEC crew. tOSU beat us on fundamentals, pure and simple. If we can't accept it, we can't correct it. Luckily, I can't imagine CNS suffers from any delusion on this point...
Now I have not watched the replay, so maybe it was not a safety.
But more to the point a safety is a very significant play. It is humiliating for the offense, and the team that gets the two points also gets the ball. I do think that that could have changed the complexion of the game. Momentum is huge is football, and going up 16-7 and having the ball would have changed all of the dynamics later.