re: Time management -- end of the 1st half

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With a good offense you trust, this makes sense. But there was no reason to think our O would be able to do much of anything. And if you call TO and UT winds up converting the 3rd down, you hand them time and field position to do something. I think it was the right call given the situation.

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They had really poor field position and Tenn has no confidence in their kicker as evidence from later in the game. As such, you call the timeout, hope for a stop, call another, and force a punt out of them.

Hell, we could have let a lot of time wind off the clock and still accomplished this, even if we were worried about them converting the third down.