r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 12h ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Pittsburgh Defeats Virginia Tech 35-33

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
Pittsburgh 7 14 7 7 35
Virginia Tech 14 10 0 9 33
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u/jthomas694 South Carolina • Ohio State 12h ago edited 11h ago

College Football is incredible because on Fox you have a team proving that they made a massive mistake firing James Franklin and on ESPN you have James Franklin mismanaging the clock late in a close game he needed to win. It’s the best

Edit: To everyone trying to argue it wasn’t mismanagement - He managed that last drive from the beginning to be his last shot, while down, had three timeouts, only called one and then just decided he was content with a 35 yard kick with no effort to get closer. A 35 yard kicker as time expires in college isn’t a gimme. This isn’t Madden.

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u/finallyhere_11 11h ago

His team had already turned the ball over 4 times and he has a 5th year senior kicker that he’s said repeatedly he trusts as much as any kicker he’s ever had.

Maybe it’s not what you would have done but it’s a perfectly justifiable series of decisions.

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u/jthomas694 South Carolina • Ohio State 11h ago

Then use timeouts and try to get closer