Texas Forgets How Coinflips Work, Gives UCLA Ball to Start Both Halves

[BusSport]

Texas forgets how coinflips work, gives UCLA ball to start both halves:

If you win the coin toss, the correct answer is always to defer until the second half. There's pretty much no difference between opening the first or second half with the ball, but if you defer, there's a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny chance that the opponent will be so massively stupid that they will choose to kick off, forgetting that you will certainly choose to receive in the second half, thus giving you the ball twice.

Texas was that massively stupid.

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Ref even tried to help 'em out:

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This is essentially a free turnover, giving the other team the ball when it was rightfully yours. And all the Longhorns had to do to avoid it was say, "we'll receive." If they lose by fewer than eight points, they might wish they had that possession back. [Update: Yep, UCLA won by three.]

 

[KnightAndDay]

LMAO

 

[fredmccallyRTR]

Haha

 

[podsox]

ha a kid on our high school team did that.

 

[potzer25]

 

[theSabanator20]

Before Texas can rise back to the top, they must hit the lowest possible point. Only then will they start to improve.

 

[nddulac]

I've actually seen a team do this on purpose. But the wind was ridiculous, and they wanted to be sure it was at their backs in the fourth quarter. the price to pay was kicking off both halves.

 

[fredmccallyRTR]

This is now my favorite story of the day.

 

[WhiteMamba]

An extra possession for UCLA in a fg win.

You could make an argument that pre kickoff blunder cost them the game.

 

[williewilliejuan]

That's a special kind of stupid.

 

[HuskerinBig10]

Shows what a Texas edumacation can get you. You are looking at the next University of Texas Ambassador of Coin Flipping.

 

[tchangles]

Which is worse, this or the 2 florida gators blocking each other?

 

[fredmccallyRTR]

Which is worse, this or the 2 florida gators blocking each other?

Close 1.

 

[longhorn718]

I'm gonna have to vote that this was worse, but I'm biased since it's my team and maybe cost us the game. Then again at least it's not an FCS team.

 

[KnightAndDay]

Which is worse, this or the 2 florida gators blocking each other?

Option 1

 

[douggie]

Charlie Strong never had that kind of problem even at UofL.

 

[theSabanator20]

Charlie Strong never had that kind of problem even at UofL.

He's got a long way to go, and a short time to get there.

 

[nddulac]

I claim self-recusal.

 

[HuskerinBig10]

Which is worse, this or the 2 florida gators blocking each other?

The Coin Flip.

He even had a chance to recant when the official turned off the microphone and explained it to him.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

There were a couple of seasons as a Tech fan where our defense was more likely to score then our offense and I may have welcomed this.