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Originally Posted by biosurfer1
I blame him and you already said why. Your main field goal guy has already missed EVERY field goal he has tried in the game so the decision is you send out a guy who has only taken 2 prior field goals in college football, missed one of them and the other was a 20 yd and have him try a 57 yd? I would think Saban has more confidence in his team than that so why not take it to overtime. And if a guy is able to catch the ball and return it, it did not "almost" go though, it came up 5+ yards short.
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The backup kicker who attempted the missed FG.....he was kicking 60 yarders in practice before the game.
The wind was at his back.
Also Coach Saban felt he would have been at a disadvantage in OT...Auburn had the momentum in the 4th quarter.
What he didn't factor in was the return coverage on the miss. But he also mentioned after the game the players didn't fan out after the kick as they normally would have. That's because they were not regular special teams and weren't used to playing in that scenario.
I maintain it was not a poor decision....but I also understand there were other options that could have worked.
We'll never know what could have been.
YMMV