Middle Tennessee doesn’t understand the basics of clock management (Video)
By John Buhler
Middle Tennessee football should stay in the locker room after this.
Leave it to Middle Tennessee football to give us the worst display of clock management ever.
Already down 21-0 vs. Army football up in West Point, the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders were first-and-goal on the Army Black Knights’ two-yard line with 45 seconds left in the first half. Despite having two timeouts remaining, Middle Tennessee took a fumbled snap for a loss of yardage and a short completion well short of the goal line into halftime. That should be it for them.
This is possibly the worst clock management I've ever witnessed. Truly unbelievable. Down by 3 TDs, you have two timeouts and you let the half expire.
— Funhouse (@BackAftaThis) September 5, 2020
And how do the announcers not say a word??? pic.twitter.com/U1roUCMX6V
The Blue Raiders disappointed the entire fan base with this atrocity.
We as football fans have not been this disgusted with a late-first half clock management debacle since Blake Bortles took a knee with 50 seconds or so left in the second quarter of the 2017 AFC Championship game. Unlike Middle Tennessee, the Jacksonville Jaguars were playing for the right to go to the Super Bowl. Middle Tennessee is playing for Conference USA supremacy this fall.
A chip-shot field attempt would have sufficed, regardless of if it went through the uprights or not. How can you look yourself in the mirror if that’s how you approach winning time at the end of a half? Middle Tennessee will lose this game anyway because the triple-option attack of Army is an unrelenting buzzsaw that breaks you down as the game progress. No point. Are you kidding me?
Again, this is the weirdest college football season of our lives. It is so unbelievably fitting that the worst clock management fiasco happens in the first game of the season for the Black Knights and the Blue Raiders. We’re going to see so much dumb stuff this year and we’re going to cherish every stinking last little bit of it. This is the type of nonsense that makes college football the best.
Middle Tennessee was clearly too good for those three points heading into halftime.
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