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Wells4Heisman said:
95 yards through the heart of the South! :lol:
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Horvath with the Zeke reference, loved it.

For those who didn’t hear it, when asked what he saw when he got his school-record 95-yard TD run, he said:

”I was an Ohio State fan when Ezekiel Elliott went ‘85 yards through the heart of the South’, so ‘95 yards through the heart of the South‘ sounds pretty nice too.”
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Horvath picking up some new Buckeye fans with that interview!
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I didn’t realize Horvath went to high school at Hilliard Darby. That would explain his Buckeye fandom. I thought he might be a relative to Les Horvath, but it does not appear that he is.
 
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BB73 said:
It’s not quite that bad. He didn’t have to win the game in the 3rd OT; he’s thinking he had a better chance of getting a score/stop combo in a future OT session BEFORE Toledo would get a score/stop combo.

He apparently felt he had a less than 50% chance of scoring from the 1, which probably isn’t accurate since Pitt converted 3 straight times from the 3 in OTs 3/4/5 before losing in OT #6.

But it was a gutless call that burned his team.
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It's a chicken and egg argument which makes it indefensible in my opinion. If he doesn't think he has a 46-48%* chance of converting a yard with his offense (which based on how the game had been going, he absolutely DID have a much higher chance to convert than that), then why does he want to trot said offense out for alternating three yard attempts to decide the game?

* - because let's not forget he had a low but not zero chance of losing in 2OT with the FG attempt. See the aforementioned Penn State boneheaded decision he made in 2019. Found that sequence for some laughs.

 
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BB73 said:
Horvath with the Zeke reference, loved it.

For those who didn’t hear it, when asked what he saw when he got his school-record 95-yard TD run, he said:

”I was an Ohio State fan when Ezekiel Elliott went ‘85 yards through the heart of the South’, so ‘95 yards through the heart of the South‘ sounds pretty nice too.”
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Hopefully someone can share video of that comment.
 
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Ryan36_1 said:
It's a chicken and egg argument which makes it indefensible in my opinion. If he doesn't think he has a 46-48%* chance of converting a yard with his offense (which based on how the game had been going, he absolutely DID have a much higher chance to convert than that), then why does he want to trot said offense out for alternating three yard attempts to decide the game?

* - because let's not forget he had a low but not zero chance of losing in 2OT with the FG attempt. See the aforementioned Penn State boneheaded decision he made in 2019. Found that sequence for some laughs.

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I agree that he should have gone for it. I was pointing out that he was comparing it to alternating 3-yard attempts; the original wording sounded like he was comparing the odds against Pitt having to win it in the 3rd OT, rather than any future OT.

If Pitt’s odds from the 1 were 40%, their odds from the 3 were 30%, but Toledo’s odds from the 3 were only 20%, the decision could be explained. Again, I think he blew it, but there is a game scenario where the decision wasn’t a no-brainer.
 
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