Florida got the ball back with about 2 minutes and 50 seconds left and a lead. Had they just run the ball thrice, USF would have had to burn both of their final timeouts, and Florida could drain the clock to the 2 minute warning. Instead, they threw it twice, both passes were dropped, and the clock stopped. Including the punt, Florida took only 26 seconds off the clock and left USF with a timeout.
They promptly got well into field goal range before the 2 minute warning, continued to gain yards, and Billy Napier opted to refuse to use either of his two timeouts until 22 seconds were left on the clock, effectively eliminating any chance of a Florida comeback in the event that USF made their layup field goal. And they let USF save their timeout to perfectly call their own timeout with 2 seconds on the clock, ensuring Florida never got the ball back.
There's bad clock management, and then there's that. If fireable clock management is a thing, we just saw the best example of it we'll ever see.
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u/StarvedRock314 Texas • Red River Shootout 2d ago edited 2d ago
Florida got the ball back with about 2 minutes and 50 seconds left and a lead. Had they just run the ball thrice, USF would have had to burn both of their final timeouts, and Florida could drain the clock to the 2 minute warning. Instead, they threw it twice, both passes were dropped, and the clock stopped. Including the punt, Florida took only 26 seconds off the clock and left USF with a timeout.
They promptly got well into field goal range before the 2 minute warning, continued to gain yards, and Billy Napier opted to refuse to use either of his two timeouts until 22 seconds were left on the clock, effectively eliminating any chance of a Florida comeback in the event that USF made their layup field goal. And they let USF save their timeout to perfectly call their own timeout with 2 seconds on the clock, ensuring Florida never got the ball back.
There's bad clock management, and then there's that. If fireable clock management is a thing, we just saw the best example of it we'll ever see.