Oops.

Saturday, Georgia receiver A.J. Green was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct following his fourth-quarter touchdown catch – one that gave Georgia the 13-12 advantage and seemingly the win over No. 4 LSU.

Monday, SEC officials coordinator Rogers Redding said the penalty for excessive celebration was a bad one.

“We looked at it from the TV recording of the video and looked at it quite a bit from a different angle [from what the official] had,” Redding told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “This was coming from the perspective from the field of play. But we concluded that the video did not support the call.”

This after the penalty caused Georgia to kick off from its own 15-yard line, setting up a short field and what would be the game-winning touchdown run from LSU’s Charles Scott.

According to the paper, Redding and conference officials reviewed the play Monday morning.

A release issued immediately after the game said that, “following a brief team celebration, Green made a gesture toward the crowd calling attention to himself.”

Redding didn’t see any such thing Monday.

“I don’t doubt the official saw what he saw,” he told the AJC. “We didn’t see the player pulling himself away from his teammates and going towards the stands in a form of self-congratulation.”

The Tigers were flagged for celebration following Scott’s score too, a penalty Redding told the AJC was a deserved one.

In a statement released through Georgia sports communications Monday, Georgia coach Mark Richt had this to say: “I did talk to Rogers Redding at the SEC office Monday and I appreciate him looking into the situation. But that game is behind us, and all the attention now is [on] preparing our team to play Tennessee.”

In his Sunday teleconference, Richt stressed the need for more education on the potential penalty.

“First of all, whatever was on camera may or may not have covered everything, and I need to be educated on what constitutes a flag for excessive celebration,” Richt said.

Offense just ‘wasn’t clicking’

Georgia’s offense has been largely schizophrenic this season, and it showed in Saturday’s loss to LSU.

After a scoreless first half, the Bulldogs seemed more rejuvenated after halftime, putting up 13 points and a near victory with a minute left.

“We just couldn’t get anything going,” said quarterback Joe Cox. “I think we came into the game expecting to make some plays, we weren’t making them, and then it kind of got to the point where everybody was pressing a little bit, and we had a few three-and-outs in a row . We came in here and talked at halftime and said we needed to play with more enthusiasm and more excitement, and we did.”

The Bulldog offense sputtered to 10 points in a season-opening loss to Oklahoma State, then rattled off 93 in its next two games. It relied on a last-minute field goal to beat Arizona State 20-17 two weeks ago.

“There was just no spark,” said wide receiver Michael Moore. “It seemed like everybody was looking around waiting for somebody to make a play.”

Vanderbilt an early kickoff as well

The SEC announced Monday that next week’s match-up between Georgia and Vanderbilt in Nashville will be a 12:21 kickoff on the SEC Network.

The newly-unranked Bulldogs play at 2-3 Tennessee at the same time and on the same station Saturday.