r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Oct 19 '25

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Texas A&M Defeats Arkansas 45-42

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Texas A&M 7 14 17 7 45
Arkansas 3 17 7 15 42
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u/HugeJeopardyFan Texas A&M Aggies Oct 19 '25

I think he was trying to save all 3 so he wouldn't have to onside kick and instead try to force a 3 and out while using all 3 timeouts. Problem with that is Green kept taking sacks instead of scoring super fast like I think Petrino thought they would.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '25

Absolutely this

It was the right call in a scenario with no really good options

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u/Redeem123 Team Chaos • Texas Longhorns Oct 19 '25

It’s decent logic tbh. But the plan fell to shit quick

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u/EM3YT Oct 19 '25

It’s easy to rip on him after the loss, but he was taking a gamble no matter what. He needed an onside kick. If he gets that with 2 time outs he could comfortably get into field goal range and also trot his kicker out with no rush or need to spike the ball with 2 seconds on the clock.

Also if he got one quick TD then he could have even pushed A&M to punt at one point.

But burning his time outs to assure a TD was a low risk low reward scenario and he wasn’t going to win without high reward things going his way