GAME DAY 2024 Bowl Week Viewing Guide - Game Thread

[Steve808]

I don't get why Washington didn't just take a knee with a minute left in the game. They run it and get an injury to stop the clock. Just dumb.

2:04 left in the game and Texas has only 2 times outs. Washington runs the ball three times instead of taking a knee 3 times and punting it from around the Texas 45 yard line. On third down, the Washington RB gets injured, so the clock stops with 50 seconds left instead of taking a knee and running it down to 24 seconds of so before punting. Then they punt and there's fair catch interference, so Texas has 1st and 10 from their own 30 with 45 seconds left.

The game ended with Texas having a couple of plays to win the game with the ball on the Washington 12 yard line.

Extremely poor clock management.

 

[Dodgersrf]

I don't get why Washington didn't just take a knee with a minute left in the game. They run it and get an injury to stop the clock. Just dumb.

I thought they should stay on the gas, to at least get another 1st down.
Penix was on fire. Let him play out until they could kill the clock to zero.
I don’t agree with going into that drive with (somewhat) intent on punting.

 

[Karate61]

I thought they should stay on the gas, to at least get another 1st down.
Penix was on fire. Let him play out until they could kill the clock to zero.
I don’t agree with going into that drive with (somewhat) intent on punting.

Ok. But Texas needed a TD to win. A FG would not do it for them. If Washington took a knee to drain the clock that series, Texas would have had to drive almost the entire field to get the TD. So, I think that would have been tough to do and therefore best to take the knee. I definitely agree with you on many occasions you need to get the 1st and ice the game. I just don't think that strategy was the one to do in this situation.