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Week 4 in college football was not good for certain schools in North Carolina (cheer up residents of Raleigh and Chapel Hill), and great for others around the country (here’s looking at you, Michigan, for winning without a passing game).
It’s Report Card time. The same thing goes as far as grading from last season: High marks will only be given to the spectacular, and failing grades have no chance of being reversed.
Last week’s top marks went to the NCAA for finally having some common sense and a cat who took matters into its own hands, while failing grades went to the Kent State athletic department for taking a “we don’t care” approach to how it stays in the black with its finances.
Here is the Week 4 analysis of how fans, teams, players, and coaches fared:
Eli Drinkwitz, the Yoda of bad clock management
Sometimes, coaches think they are smarter than everyone else. And when you don’t take your opponent seriously or try to get cute to prove said smartness, it can backfire.
During Missouri’s game against three-touchdown underdog Vanderbilt, Tigers coach Eli Drinkwitz decided to pull out some of his old (baffling) game management tricks.
With the score tied at 10 and Missouri facing a fourth-and-3 at its own 47-yard line with 13 seconds to go in the first half, what did Drinkwitz decide to do?
That’s right, folks; if you guessed D, you too could apparently coach at least one down of college football even without having any experience or knowledge of strategy. Vanderbilt turned that blunder into three points when kicker Brock Taylor drilled a 57-yard field goal to end the half.
Missouri had the ball again in the fourth quarter with the game tied at 20 and 53 seconds remaining, facing a fourth-and-1 from the Commodores’ 47. Drinkwitz chose multiple choice answers A, B, and C this time instead of trying to move in closer for a…
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Publish date : 2024-09-22 10:09:03
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