A day in the life of an SEC referee

ATHENS, Ga. -- Seven pairs of black Under Armour pants and striped referee tops sit on a long table inside a meeting room at the Graduate Athens hotel Saturday. There are referee hats at the front of the room and bags of officiating goodies, complete with whistles, down markers, and yellow flags.

Today, seven ESPN personalities -- Edward Aschoff, Kevin Carter, Chris Doering, Brock Huard, Barrett Jones, Greg McElroy and Maria Taylor -- will try their unproven, inexperienced hands at officiating with an SEC crew for Georgia's spring game. It's the brainchild of SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, who wanted to create a more fan-friendly experiment with digesting a day in the life of an official --…