Aggies had some fortuitous moments, but they won the game fair and square.
If by "fair and square" you mean "with referees looking for ways to benefit one team and screw the other one," then sure.
Bad calls happen. It's part of the game. I'm probably the first to remember a blown call that helped LSU win the 2014 A&M game. Would guarantee you Aggies remember it. There have been others, although LSU sure does seem to find itself on the wrong end of them more often than not, especially against one certain team.
If it were just one thing, I wouldn't like it and it would stick in my craw, but I'd understand that stuff happens.
This was 5 calls (two of which I think were ultimately correct even if they weren't treated appropriately by the refs, 3 that may cost me a new TV) where the referees went out of their way either to look for things that hurt LSU, or to choose not to review things that could have helped LSU. Let's say all the calls were tough ones, but ultimately "correct." Now a "correct" call essentially means you can justify the call as correct, because it's pretty rare that a close, controversial call is 100% one way or another. You can normally find rulebook coverage to make a judgment call go either way. And a "good" call is one that falls within that rulebook coverage. The LSU complaint is that EVEN IF that is all true, every judgement call went in favor of the Aggies, and that in and of itself shows something that looks an awful lot like bias. You'd think one of those close judgement calls would go to LSU. It was the one-sided nature of the ref's "fair perspective" that rankles.
I think the thing that gets me the worst is for 7 games over 8 years, I said nothing to my die-hard Aggie family and friends. Not one word ever, because I know a lot of them take stuff really seriously, and really hard. I could barely get my phone turned on Sunday morning before it blew up with the sorest loser texts imaginable. Ags are now 1-6 against LSU in conference and the fans are acting like we're basically even, despite that one win taking 1) 7 overtimes 2) 3+ ref snafus 3) 1 coaching change 4) $75 million 5) LSU down 4 defensive starters.
All that said, I'm not upset with TAMU or its team. Just the refereeing crew who has now done a number on us twice this seasons, making a strong run at replacing the Penn Wagers crew who seemed to take special delight in sticking it to us.
