Ole Miss secured a big win over South Carolina in week five, but the Rebels left the game facing some allegations of “faking injuries.”
The game featured 11 injury timeouts due to an Ole Miss player going down. Several of the stops came after South Carolina picked up a first-down or generated an explosive play.
South Carolina’s Shane Beamer had some thoughts after the game.
“It’s fascinating to me how many injuries occur for them after the opposing offense makes a first down or has a big play,” Beamer said. “You go back and watch the Wake Forest game, and it happens a lot to the same guy.”
With LSU set to play Ole Miss on Saturday, LSU head coach [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] was asked about the matter. He didn’t say much, but he did note the SEC has a policy in place to deal with fake injuries.
As far as it goes in-game, Kelly said the officials should stay out of it.
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Kelly’s take makes sense. You don’t want an official put in a spot to declare whether an injury is fake or not. It’s unfair to the official and in a situation where he makes the wrong call, it’s unfair to the player.
But if Ole Miss is faking injuries, it’s something the SEC should look into.
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