(09-04-2017 07:57 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-04-2017 07:13 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  Texas A&M: what was that last night?

3rd Quarter: aTm 44, UCLA 10
Final Score: aTm 44, UCLA 45

!?!?!?

You were busy with another game, but with a minute to play in the 2nd quarter and the ball on UCLA's side of the field and holding a 38-10 lead Sumlin ran the clock out instead of trying to pick up 15 yards and kick a field goal.

In the 3rd quarter following a break and a good drive that took the Aggies to the 10 yard line of UCLA they attempted 3 passes instead of sticking to the ground game and kicked for 3. Another time they were stopped with a 4th and a little less than two yards and a chance to put the game away and instead kicked for 3. They never scored again.

All through the 3rd and 4th quarters the Aggies who had rushed the ball well for most of the night continued to toss incomplete passes instead of running clock. I started calculating this in the third quarter and just in that quarter alone the failed to shave 5 minutes off the clock. The 4th quarter was even worse. BTW the UCLA scored the winning points with 47 seconds left on the clock. Just saying!

I see that UCLA score 2 TDs in the last 3:10, so if aTm just runs 5 mins off the clock w/o scoring they win by 13... that's some boneheaded clock management!