Alabama fans claim Chris Davis was out of bounds, petition for overtime

As Chris Davis blasted into the end zone Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium, it was easy to wonder: How, exactly, did he stay in bounds?

There’s a faction of Alabama fans that believe Davis stepped out of bounds, apparently. And on Monday, a petition surfaced on Change.org about it.

Chris Davis from Auburn was clearly out of bounds in running the missed field goal back for a touchdown in the 2013 Iron Bowl. There was way to much riding on this game for that to have been missed- a SEC Championship and National Championship. I think they should put together an overtime play for Auburn and Alabama. Yes, I know how impossible that sounds and how much trouble it will be BUT sometimes you have to make wrongs RIGHT and with so much riding on that game the SEC and NCAA needs to make it right for the players, university, fans, coaches, SEC and SPORTS in general. And if they don’t like the hassel then go out and make sure your employees, the refs, are not making such HUGE mistakes. And the refs needs to be punished for not even reviewing the play because it wasn’t even close- he was CLEARLY out of bounds. Its not fair to say that this is over and overtime can’t be played now just because of how much trouble this would be to put together. It was wrong....and you need to make it right regardless of the hassel.
SEC and NCAA- do the right thing and make this right for everyone involved!!

The screenshot the petition uses is supposed to show Davis’ foot touching out of the field of play, even though it doesn’t. Davis’ foot isn’t on the ground in the screenshot. Plus, despite the pandemonium at Auburn, officials easily could’ve determined by replay that his foot was out of bounds.

But trying to argue logic here is pointless, since the thought of Alabama and Auburn playing overtime periods sometime this week is hilarious. Maybe the Iron Bowl overtimes could take place before the SEC Championship? Mizzou would probably like that.

As of this posting, the petition had 342 signatures.

The Alabama-Auburn meltdown wasn’t confined to one small petition, either:

Apparently, the massive number of calls has crashed our phone system. We are working to correct situation.

— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) December 2, 2013