A_Slab_of_Bacon
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The Illinois game last weekend really drove home the weird conundrum that can happen regarding going for a 2pt conversion.
1. With 5:44 to go the gophers score a TD to go up 22 to 17 with the extra point(s) try pending.
2. They're up just 5, so you gotta go for 2 to extend the lead to 7. They do and it wasn't pretty and they failed.
3. Gophers stop Illinois and drive and get a FG with 1:52 going up 25 to 17 ... 8 point lead. Man that extra point seems like it would have been nice to have then to put the game all but out of reach.
Ultimately I do not disagree with the call. But I feel like this really demonstrates the whole risk of "just go for 2" or even just calls where you stare at the score too much and assume you never score again ... are really risky if you make that call too soon and reach for more points ... even with say 5:44 left to go.
We saw this sort of play out the opposite way with UCLA where late in the game we punted and you'd think maybe we should have gone for it on 4th down but nope we trusted our defense to get the stop and offense to score when they got the ball back.
Sometimes you see fans and even coaches doing math as early as the 3rd quarter and man ... that gets risky.
1. With 5:44 to go the gophers score a TD to go up 22 to 17 with the extra point(s) try pending.
2. They're up just 5, so you gotta go for 2 to extend the lead to 7. They do and it wasn't pretty and they failed.
3. Gophers stop Illinois and drive and get a FG with 1:52 going up 25 to 17 ... 8 point lead. Man that extra point seems like it would have been nice to have then to put the game all but out of reach.
Ultimately I do not disagree with the call. But I feel like this really demonstrates the whole risk of "just go for 2" or even just calls where you stare at the score too much and assume you never score again ... are really risky if you make that call too soon and reach for more points ... even with say 5:44 left to go.
We saw this sort of play out the opposite way with UCLA where late in the game we punted and you'd think maybe we should have gone for it on 4th down but nope we trusted our defense to get the stop and offense to score when they got the ball back.
Sometimes you see fans and even coaches doing math as early as the 3rd quarter and man ... that gets risky.
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