Well Bert already made a 45 yard FG previously which is more devil advocate from me but at least we can see where sarks head was at when he sent him back out for a go ahead 47 yard FG. I agree tho the risk of him missing it was there but I’m not going to complain for 3 points we did get rather than what could’ve been. We came away with the lead which was the goal of the drive. If we were to start with the 3 & 9 call, it’s easy to see where his head was at. You can’t take a sack, like they already did on first down, because then you’re out of FG range and it’s a long 4th. An incomplete pass is also technically out of FG range, too. We run for 5 yards or less and we’re in the same spot or worse than what actually happened. That’s why I believe the 3rd and 4th down calls were fine from a risk perspective. A different play call on 3 & 9 would be a roll out play action and if it’s not there have Ewers tuck it and make OU call a timeout.
We got the ball on our own 15 with 4:42 on the clock. When the clock struck 3:05 we were at the OU 49. You want to know how much time we Sark took off the clock? A whopping 15 seconds. We took off 30 seconds the next play. There is absolutely no reason as to why we shouldn’t have slowed down and milked the clock once we got across the 50. Gabriel scored with 15 seconds left in the game. Sark mismanaged the clock before OU ever touched the ball and it cost us the game.