Social media reacts to targeting-heavy first half in Louisville-Ole Miss showdown

Labor Day felt like a good day for one more college football contest to finish off the weekend, but the action in Atlanta has not been great.

With the game between Louisville and Ole Miss approaching halftime, Ole Miss currently holds a solid 23-0 lead over the Cardinals. However, the lopsided score has not been the ugliest part of the game.

The action on the field has been interrupted multiple times to review a handful of penalties. The culprit? Multiple targeting calls coming on both sides of the contest.

In total, 4 targeting penalties were reviewed and upheld with 4 players receiving ejections from the game. Some of the hits were questionable, but the constant delay in action and multiple ejections have fans on social media sounding off about the current landscape surrounding the targeting rule.

Take a look:

Another targeting call. Ole Miss LB Lakia Henry has been ejected. pic.twitter.com/RVhSpCUibo

— PFF College (@PFF_College) September 7, 2021

MNF…brought to you by pic.twitter.com/s96OThTgAs

— JeffreyTheGreek (@JeffreyTheGreek) September 7, 2021

Another Targeting… JEEEEZ LOUISE DUDE

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) September 7, 2021

You get a targeting and you get a targeting and you get a targeting and you get a targeting and you get a targeting and you get a targeting and you get a targeting pic.twitter.com/3se7mdIpEx

— Todd Fuhrman (@ToddFuhrman) September 7, 2021

I wish I loved anything as much as these refs loved calling targeting.

— Adam Spencer (@AdamSpencer4) September 7, 2021

Targeting makes me want to freaking scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Defenders cannot account for offensive players ducking or lowering their bodies before the defenders hit them! Impossible!

— David Pollack (@davidpollack47) September 7, 2021

The Wheel of Targeting lands on “yes”

Again.

— Barrett Sallee (@BarrettSallee) September 7, 2021

How are you supposed to play the game this way???

— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) September 7, 2021

UPDATE: Every player in the Louisville/Ole Miss game has been ejected for targeting.

— Funhouse (@BackAftaThis) September 7, 2021

A quarter-and-a-half through Ole Miss-Louisville:

Ole Miss scoring drives: 4
Players ejected for targeting: 4
Louisville first downs: 4

— Aaron Torres (@Aaron_Torres) September 7, 2021

we're getting to the point where the players who don't get called for targeting should get a free ice cream cone after each play

— Jessica Smetana (@jessica_smetana) September 7, 2021