Now that we’ve basked in the glory of a top moment of all time, I’ve gotta ask why in God’s name you’d take the 1st of 3 TO’s to avoid the 10 sec runoff?

By using the TO, you’re forcing yourself to score a TD, as you won’t get the ball back with just 2 TO’s. The clock doesn’t even matter when you make that decision, as we couldn’t get a 1st down anyways.

We all know Coach isn’t known for his clock management, but this decision would’ve floored me for awhile.

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Posted by RollTide1987

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Posted on 11/26/23 at 7:17 am to Gpfather

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By using the TO, you’re forcing yourself to score a TD, as you won’t get the ball back with just 2 TO’s

I'm not sure what you're arguing here. A lot can happen on a fourth down play. For instance, pass interference could be called in the end zone, giving us a new set of downs. You're gonna want those additional 10 seconds if such a scenario plays out.

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Posted by CrimsonBoz

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Posted on 11/26/23 at 7:19 am to Gpfather

That’s a fair point. I was honestly wondering if we were going to do the field goal, onside thing. I’m obviously glad we didn’t, its success rate was probably less than what actually happened.

The muffed punt, recovery of it etc was all insane dominos falling.

Im not sure we could have stopped Auburn, got a punt and driven the field. Maybe but I felt like Freeze was saving a trick play for our arse on that drive had they had it.

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Posted by auisssa

Member since Feb 2010

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Posted on 11/26/23 at 8:29 am to Gpfather

At the time I thought it was the wrong call. Would love to see the analytics on it.

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