ESPN Announcer Karl Ravech Defends Embarrassing On-Air Moment

"We know how dominant they were in the non-conference season, the SEC," Ravech said. "They were 185-23. Since January 4, into Tuesday, the SEC teams are 82-82. It's not as if one team or two teams or three — they're 82-82. There's been no ability pull away, there's no dominant group of teams."

After seeing the clip blow up online Ravech took to social media to defend himself. But instead of just admitting that he'd been had, he chalked the situation up to being tongue-in-cheek.

"Just landed and see X is on fire. Simple explanation," the commentator posted. "Tongue in cheek 82-82 record was to illustrate any night either team can win and one will. Clearly very poor execution on my part. It is amazing that Alabama/Auburn have only lost once in such a great conference. That's all."

Nothing about Ravech's delivery remotely suggested he was being tongue-in-cheek, nor did he give any indication to the audience that he was in on the joke.

There's no shame in making mistakes — we all do. But when they happen it's usually best to just own them and keep it pushing.