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In a B1G Country: 2015 Week 7 Recap and Week 8 Preview

That was awesomely ridiculous and ridiculously awesome.

A couple of game theory notes:

1) The timeout before the 4th and 19 play was a disaster. In the likely event that you don't pick up the first down, that's 40 seconds lost, and the extra time to call a play can't improve your success rate on the fourth down enough to make that a worthwhile tradeoff. You're certainly better off taking the delay of game (4th and 24 isn't that much worse than 4th and 19), and I'm not totally convinced you aren't better off just conceding the turnover on downs.