‘Choke hold’

Alabama quickly capitalized on the overturned fumble, with Tua Tagovailoa hitting Jerry Jeudy with a 42-yard touchdown pass on the next play.

On that play, Alabama right guard Alex Leatherwood clearly had his arm wrapped around the neck of Arkansas rusher McTelvin Agim in the Tide backfield.

“He kind of had me in a choke hold,” said Agim, who tweeted out a picture of the encounter side by side with a still shot of a Ving Rhames’ choke hold move from a movie. “It was just like, ‘Lord knows. If the ref don’t call it, the Lord knows what happened, man.’ ”

Agim was visibly agitated after other plays in which he reacted as if he had been held.

“I guarantee you he wasn’t the only person frustrated,” Arkansas defensive coordinator John Chavis said, without giving his opinion of the non-calls.

“If you say, ‘Hey Coach, were you frustrated?’ There were a couple of times that I was, but I’ve got to keep my composure and I’ve got to help them keep their composure, and that’s what we’ve got to do.”

Morris has not been critical of the officiating in his first season in the SEC. He acknowledged after the Auburn game and again Monday that he and his staff send in questionable plays to the SEC office.

“We turn in plays each and every week, just for our own knowledge of how we can coach better and teach better,” Morris said.

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