It is more than fair for Tennessee football fans to criticize the officials in the Vols’ loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa Saturday night. After all, even national media members like Joel Klatt and Dan Wolken were critical. Klatt literally called for the ejection of the officials for making a specific call.
But the fact of the matter is that can’t overshadow the mistakes that were made by this team. And we have to call those out as well, as the mistakes had as much to do with them not being able to hand into the fourth quarter as anything.