Akron beating IU
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Haha they gave up the game tying TD with 3:34 left. Akron with the ball to win the game right now.
LOL…. Akron Kicker missed game-winning FG on last play of the game. Headed to OT…..
Uh, that is one hundred percent the right decision.
Akron is about to run it up their throat for the win!
3rd and 3 at the 5 and they get stuffed and elect for the tie. IU sucks lol, they had a wr wide open doing jumping jacks on the 2 point conversion and the QB forced it into 5 defenders for an INT.
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IU had a bad snap, but refs called media timeout... IU converts, Akron fails
Uh, you new around here?
Took them 4 overtimes to beat Akron lol. I'd be willing to bet IU has a new coach next season.
1. We used to play them every year, so they were a rival for a while.
2. Their basketball fans are annoying.
3. Their basketball team beat our to-be 2012 national champs and the fans nearly bulldozed all our players by rushing the court – including fan favorite Darius Miller.
4. They low down. They dirty. They some snitches.
5. They're IU. F-em. 🤷♂️
I was there for the 3-0 disaster between the 40s, and Cam’s killer Defense..so no.
We haven’t played them in forever and never give them a second thought.
Never gave one ounce of consideration to basketball.
They do own us in the football head-to-head. and would like to play them and beat them the handful of times to flip the series.
Only one P5 team, Georgia Tech IIRC, about 15 years ago, failed to elect to defend after winning the overtime toss. National articles were written about the gaff at the time.
You always elect to defend when given the chance, so that on your possession, you know how many points you’ll need either to win or extend the game.
I would go for the score at home. Especially to a weaker opponent but that’s just me. Seems to me like you always should go for a TD from the 35 yard line. I could see the rationale for the 2pt conversion but they had trouble all game scoring at all.
I think we started playing them on an annual basis starting in 1983 or 84(?) until the last game in 2005. They spanked us in that last game but overall in that 20-year span we won about 70% of them.
IU is arguably one of the worst P5 programs.
If you grew up on the Ky side of the river in the Evansville area like I did you would totally understand the hate for IU. They, UofL, and UT are all lumped together as the teams I hate the most.
Going for a TD has nothing to do with the decision to defend if you win the toss. That’s what everyone is pointing out.
In college, if you win the toss in OT, then you always choose to play defense first. College OT is not sudden death so there’s no reason to play offense first.
One of my least fun games ever at Commonwealth was against IU. They had 2 guys rush for over 200 yards (Alex Smith was one of them) and had over 600 rushing yards as a team.
To be a tad offensive, I think you have a poor grasp of how college overtime works.
Each team gets its overtime possession(s) at the opponents 25 yard line, ie, 25 yards from paydirt.
Because there is at least 10 to a 15 percent chance your opponent will not score at all on it’s possession, it gives the second team a great advantage in play-calling.
If I prevent my opponent from
Scoring even a field goal, I merely try to gain a few yards and center the ball for a 30 to 40 yard field goal attempt for the win.
But if I go first, my playbook has to be all the way open . . . I can’t predict how many points my opponent will score if he goes after my possession. And this creates a greater risk of interceptions, and turnovers in general, hence the 10 to 15 percent chance the first team scores no points.
The whole 1997 game against Bama is available on YouTube, including overtime.
It is a good example. We won the toss, chose to go second on possession, they chose the end zone away from our student body. Then on a second down pass completion, we jarred the ball loose for a fumble.
Mumme threw the ball on third down for the TD, because Bama had created TFL’s backing us to the 31, but had Yeast not caught the TD pass on 3rd down, we would still have had a 49 yard Field Goal attempt for the win.
Only three long-tenured P5 programs have never won 10 or more games in a single season: IU, Iowa State, and Vanderbilt.
When we broke our 41 year drought for 10 win seasons in 2018/19, ours was the 4th longest streak of such futility, exceeded only by those 3 programs who have never done it.
Colorado screwed this up just 8 days ago against Colorado St.
1st OT, Buffs elected offense when they won the toss. And it should have beat them! Colorado scored a TD/extra point. Then Col St had their turn, knew what they needed, and got a TD. Norvell got chickenshit and kicked an XPT to go to 2nd OT. He took the cowards way out when Prime gifted him a huge upset rivalry win. And the football gods gave him the loss he deserved.
Prime tried to justify this a few days later, said the opposing D was dead tired. Fact is he screwed up, but Norvell gave him a hand to save the day.
I did not watch the game.
Really, the math/philosophy is pretty simple.
Just yesterday we saw one player with 2 pick sixes.
Just as an offense might go scoreless in it’s
possession, it might also toss the ball to the defense, surrendering the win.
Which is why you don't post about it. Lol. Jinxed the zips
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