My own human reaction is that during the bottle throwing scrum, the refs looked at replays on the video boards and/or replay called down (illegally, but shouldn't be) and said "you got this wrong, let's fix it". Live, it was pretty bang bang and I didn't think that any penalty occurred. Upon replay, it looked more like OPI than DPI.
After it was said and done, Texas couldn't get back into the game any further than the 2nd TD. UGA scored again and held them out from scoring.
I didn't watch the 2nd half of the game so was unaware of the controversy before reading this thread and watching the replay posted above.
It's a little mindboggling the way it was handled. We've all seen flags picked up before...but never anything remotely approaching the scene after that (wrong) DPI call.
So they did end up getting it right, and some people might say that's the main thing. On the other hand, bad calls (or bad non-calls) are a part of the game. You can't very well litigate them under a hail of water bottles.
I think your analysis of how it went down is pretty much on target except I'm thinking that the television commentary may have been another part of the equation. I mean, Herbie and Fowler were blasting the call.
All in all: bad look...bad precedent...right result. And the irony is that it ended up making no difference to the outcome of the game, which is fortunate. If it had ended up being key in hanging a 2nd loss on Georgia, there would be hell to pay in SEC land.
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