Imagine this scenario.
Your team is leading 20-17. You’ve got a third down. There are 35 seconds left in the game. The play-clock in college, unless after a timeout or other break such as a penalty, is 40 seconds. Your opponent has zero timeouts.
Here are your choices: (1) run a play; (2) kneel down.
Miami and coach Mario Cristobal chose the first option. The Hurricanes, despite needing to only kneel to win the game, ran a play. Running back Donald Chaney, in a handoff up the middle, fumbled the ball to Georgia Tech. The Yellowjackets went 74 yards in 26 seconds to score a touchdown and win the game, 24-20, in a most improbable victory that will surely go down in college athletics lore as one of the more baffling coaching decisions in the sport.