SEC officials miss blatant targeting call from Florida on LSU linebacker (Video)

The SEC officials misses a blatant targeting call on Florida football vs. LSU football.

Florida football should have been called for targeting on this late hit on LSU football.

If you want to win a game, do not leave it up to the officials because they are never on your side. While the LSU Tigers led by a touchdown at the half on the road vs. the No. 6 Florida Gators, the home team should be down a player after this awful missed targeting call by the SEC officials. It is an inconsistent punishment and one the zebras almost always get wrong. How did they miss this?

Stone Forsythe played through the whistle and hit Jabril Cox

The play was dead, but Florida offensive lineman Stone Forsythe was all in favor of some extracurricular activities beyond the whistle. He went out of his way to lay a cheap shot on unsuspecting LSU linebacker Jabril Cox. Because Cox was away from the pile of seemingly everybody else on the field, the targeting call should have been an obvious one. It was not.

LSU has made itself ineligible to play in a bowl game this season, but did hold a seven-point lead on the road vs. its cross-divisional rival. While Florida already clinched the SEC East crown, a loss at home to a sub-.500 LSU team guarantees the Gators will not make the College Football Playoff under any circumstance. A third loss could knock them out of the New Year’s Six entirely.

The SEC officials owe Cox, head coach Ed Orgeron and the entire LSU team an apology for this.

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