Play it safe take the easier point. Count on your best in FCS D. That has been Bison championship football for this dynasty. No need to reinvent the wheel based on "statistics." You know, those wonderful fungible statistics.
Nice to see NDSU try to call SDSU offsides before the 4th and short. Good composure by both teams not to jump.
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A very entertaining game considering all the rushing an not much passing. Going for two was risky and it failed, maybe Hendricks should have taken a TO as they had numbers on our formation in front or could he have passed it to the right, I could not see what was out there as the TV camera man failed too.
As for the HB pass, wtf on your own 30 or so? Only do that in the red zone. On the 4th down on the 30 another very risky call but was glad we did it either way, losing this game would not be the end of the season by any means, maybe a conf. champ forfeit and maybe a home playoff game risk to SDSU if they went on to win the conference. Brooks & Coffields lit it up on the big runs! FUN TO WATCH! THANKS TO THE OFFENSIVE LINE!
Did not look at D stats yet but they did it like champs again too.
BUT, all said and done it was GREAT!!!!
Let's Go Bison!!!
Going for it on the 4th down was the right call IMO, and I would maintain that even if we didn’t get a first down (or score). I felt if we had any chance to win the game, we had to take the risk. Our defense was bend not break the whole game, and the likelihood that SDSU could’ve gotten a field goal if we punted was high. Even if SDSU didn’t get a FG, they could have easily ran enough time off the clock that we couldn’t have gotten the ball back and had time to score, therefor leading to over time and who knows what. Right when we were marked short of the first down, my immediate thought was that we had to go for it. We were having success with our running backs, and having enough success with Lance that the probability of getting those couple of inches was high. Although, I was extremely surprised it wasn’t a QB sneak.
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Up 10 late in the 3rd my first thought was PAT1, but it turns out, that’s mostly wrong. You could construct an argument from the data that it’s a push, but the best evidence I’ve seen is PAT2 is the better choice there. Add the swinging gate which lets you weigh up the defensive alignment immediately before deciding and I think it’s very hard to dispute the decision, unless you can make a case that the defense was misdiagnosed.
Up six late in the 4th, PAT1 is clearly the best choice.
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I can't imagine the folks in Brookings are too happy tonight. Hopefully, though, not as seriously ticked off as they were 29 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FlNu0dWXes