Oklahoma Sooners coach Lincoln Riley on late Baylor Bears field goal — ‘I don’t agree with it’

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Baylor enthusiasts were so enthusiastic that their No. 13 Bears conquer No. 8 Oklahoma that they stormed the subject two times on Saturday.

Assuming the video game was in excess of, throngs of admirers who experienced been perched on partitions waiting around for the remaining seconds to tick off the clock rushed the area, not knowing Baylor mentor Dave Aranda experienced referred to as a timeout with a few seconds remaining, up 24-14.

Aranda’s reasoning: He preferred to get added points in situation there was a tie between two-loss groups in the Significant 12 title race, since position differential concerning teams is the 3rd tiebreaker in the league’s rules.

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Just after a prolonged hold off, together with the general public handle announcer imploring followers to depart the field, the Bears’ Isaiah Hankins included a 32-yarder as time expired for the 27-14 victory, and the followers ran again to the center of the industry to rejoice.

On a day when the Sooners’ 17-activity profitable streak finished, and they had been possible eradicated from the College Football Playoff race, none of this sat well with Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley.

“It grew to become a protection problem,” Riley claimed. “I know why Dave tried using to kick the industry target. I really don’t agree with it. And I however think over all else, there is a code of sportsmanship that I believe that in. I would not have finished it. But that’s his choice, which is his soccer workforce. How the officials really don’t implement a 15-garden penalty when you possibly obtained 5,000 men and women on the discipline is unbelievable to me. It is what it is. Which is his conclusion. Which is the officials’ determination. I don’t agree with it.”

Aranda mentioned he pondered the tiebreaker final decision early in the 7 days and made a decision when Kennedy Brooks scored on a 1-garden operate with 2:26 left in the activity that he preferred to check out to incorporate much more details.

“We needed to get again on the scoreboard to support with that differential,” he explained. “You have some two-reduction teams. We want to be in that place.”

Riley explained he saw OU linebacker David Ugwoegbu “just get bum-rushed by three men” and sent Oklahoma’s group to the locker home during the hold off. He mentioned he considered telling all the gamers to depart without having obtaining any on the industry for a remaining enjoy.

“I did notify them that, and I will not know, possibly I need to have accomplished it,” Riley mentioned. “You know, I just I will not consider this problem was dealt with nicely by a lot of individuals. Carrying out it with course is vital to me. And at the close of the day, that is why we determined to convey 11 guys out even though deep down I damn positive didn’t want to.”

Aranda was explained to of Riley’s reviews and reported he could value his point of view.

“I assume he was upset,” Aranda said. “I can have an understanding of that. It’s an psychological video game. I consider Lincoln a good friend, so I think about we will chat listed here very swift.”

It was the finish of a disheartening working day all about for Riley, whose offense had its worst functionality at any time underneath him. The Sooners had their fewest yards (260) and fewest details scored (14) given that Riley arrived at Oklahoma as offensive coordinator in 2015.

It is just the next time the Sooners have been held to much less than 300 yards underneath Riley. That, too, was versus Aranda, in the Sooners’ 27-14 get about Baylor final yr.

“They performed better than we did,” Riley explained.

Riley experimented with a quarterback change the moment again to see if he could come across a spark, benching Caleb Williams late in the third quarter for Spencer Rattler. To that level, Williams was 8-for-14 for 84 yards.

“We were just a minimal stale, actually,” Riley said. “We had a minor stretch there in the next quarter, once more in the 3rd quarter, wherever we had a several issues there that [Williams] missed that he just typically won’t miss out on. Spencer, experienced a superior week. So I went with Spencer. Yet again, you have got to make those people conclusions in the warmth of the minute. At that stage, I felt like it was the appropriate final decision.”

Rattler went 4-of-6 for 36 yards on two drives. The two drives finished with Rattler getting sacked on third down. Williams’ surging Heisman candidacy ended and the Sooners’ playoff goals died in a sea of eco-friendly-and-gold-clad enthusiasts in Waco.

But a seventh straight Large 12 title remains a aim.

“Even now a total whole lot remaining for this football crew,” Riley mentioned. “That’s the edge of winning your to start with nine game titles is you do set you up to be in a position to conquer a thing like this, so [I’m] disappointed, of course, that we have to get over it, but it is what it is. So we are going to bounce back like we often do and like we entirely count on to.”