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Those were just the first three from a random google search.

I'm not trying to be an ass, I'm just saying lots of stuff is going uncalled now, that used to be an automatic celebration/taunting penalty.  Including folks occasionally spiking the football.

Anyway, I'm glad the calls are loosening up on this stuff.  I think rules against celebration are silly.

If some kind of goofy, premeditated and orchestrated dance takes so long that it delays the game, fine, call a delay of game penalty.

But in general, these players are just celebrating a great play in the midst of a game that is incredibly tough on both the body and mind. Heaven forbid we let them get a little emotional about it.

2021 SEC CCG, Jameson Williams premeditated "proposal to the goalpost" touchdown celebration, no flags:
 "Karate Kid" aka "Crimson Crane" premeditated touchdown celebrations, no flags:



Alabama "guitar handshake" premeditated touchdown celebration, no flags:

well, this is Bama and Saban runs the conference

Texas won't be in charge in the SEC SEC SEC

Oh, so you've found more evidence that the zebras handle things differently for the Gumps?  Cool. 

tbf, you uncovered things that aren't spikes.

I know we get many "go run to your friends and jump 4 feet in the air to chest bump and hope you both don't get hurt on the way down" type celebrations.  Usually, I'd say.  We probably get the occasional more interesting celebration, as you uncovered. 

I don't remember any spikes in recent memory, and I feel sure they'd be flagged by our a-hole refs.  They'd consider it aggressive and unsportsmanlike.  If you propose to a goalpost you're just having fun.  If you spike the ball, those dummies would consider it hostile intent.  

how about "horns down" in the SEC?
has this been ruled on and decided

the Aggies want to know

as a matter of fact.......


https://larrybrownsports.com/college-football/sec-policy-horns-down-gesture-taunts/617819

I think taunting rules in college football are silly and unnecessary.

But as long as there are taunting rules in college football, then horns-down should be treated exactly the same as a throat slash or standing over a player or mocking the gator chomp or whatever else.  

This stuff is easy peasy, only idiots don't get it.

Last night I saw Ewer's "spike" on YouTube. 

Maybe I have seen something like that, but I wouldn't have characterized it as a spike.  He slammed the ball down, which I suppose counts, but I think of a spike as the Gronk motion.  That's how players used to do it....they wound up almost like a pitcher, and made a big arcing motion with their arm and their back leg comes up like a pitcher's too.  It's forceful, very demonstrative, and I guess could be considered aggressive. 

What Ewers did, that probably does happen in the SEC without flags.  Not that I recall it, but that doesn't mean much.  That wouldn't have stood out to me enough to remember it.  If the ref got on to him for that, that's kinda ridiculous.  That's way different than what I think of as a spike.

Not that I'm against the Gronk spike either.