Evening Games Open Thread

Last week v BYU Texas OL had a combined 5 starts between them.  So today its 10.  Their offense is going to be in trouble all year.

I belive the announcers said there are SEC refs in Norman.

Has Hoke won a national title and played for a second? 

Of course, Hazel did not have them ready to play CMU.  Football is just weird sometimes.

say that you can make your choice to kick or receive.  It may not be strategically a good thing to do what Texas did, but they were within the rules, and the refs have to accept what they said since it is legal to ask to kick if the other team deferred.  To whit:

ARTICLE 1. a. Each half shall start with a kickoff.
b. Three minutes before the scheduled starting time, the referee shall toss a
coin at midfield in the presence of not more than four field captains from
each team and another game official, first designating the field captain of the
visiting team to call the coin toss. Before the second half, the referee will
obtain the teams’ second-half options.
c. During the coin toss, each team shall remain in the area between the nineyard
marks and its sideline or in the team area. The coin toss begins when
the field captains leave the nine-yard marks and ends when the captains
return to the nine-yard marks.
PENALTY—Five yards from the succeeding spot [S19].
d. The winner of the toss shall choose one of the following options:
1. To designate which team shall kick off.
2. To designate which goal line his team shall defend.
3. To defer his selection to the second half.
e. The opponent shall then choose option 1 or 2 above, as available.
f. If the winner of the toss chooses option 3 above, then after the opponent’s
choice the winner selects the available option (1 or 2 above).
g. For the second half the loser of the toss, or the winner who chooses option
3 above, shall choose option 1 or 2 above. The opponent then chooses the
remaining available option.

If you win the coin toss, you *are* allowed to choose to kick in the first half.  You could also choose to defend a certain end (if the weather were crazy, perhaps - seen every now and then in coin flips before overtime if there is heavy wind).  You could choose to receive in the first half.  All are options.  The last option is to defer your ability to get first pick to the 2nd half, and then, you don't have to make your choice among all these options (kick, receive, choose an end to defend) until right before the 2nd half starts.  If you think your defense is going to score more than your offense, choose to kick.

The key is that defer does not mean you are necessarily choosing to receive to start the 2nd half; it's just what happens most of the time.

Now, if the coach told the captains what to do and they said kick instead of receive - oops.