By GUERIN EMIG Sports Writer on Nov 9, 2012, at 11:39 AM Updated on 11/09 at 11:39 AM
OU SPORTS
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You know what I'd forgotten about last year's Oklahoma-Baylor bonanza in Waco? The heat Bob Stoops took for calling time out early in the Bears' game-winning drive. Remember?
Blake Bell scores his fourth touchdown to knot the score at 38-38 with 51 seconds left. Patrick O'Hara sends the ensuing kickoff into the end zone, so Baylor takes over at its 20 and runs Terrance Ganaway for a gain of 4. Art Briles is content to go to overtime.
Only, Stoops isn't. He calls timeout. And over on the sidelines Briles decides, What the bleep? Let's turn Robert Griffin loose.
RG3 scrambles for 22. He scrambles for 8. He hits Kendall Wright for 12. He ropes a 34-yard touchdown pass to Terrance Williams.
Whoops.
"Well, you've got the wind," Stoops explained. "We had stopped them. I think they were 3-of-13 on third downs. I really thought he would run it one more time and make us burn another timeout. And then we had an opportunity on third down in which they were still backed up, punting into the wind with an opportunity to get a return. We have one timeout, maybe a chance for a field goal."
That didn't keep the storm from coming…
From John Taylor on NBC's website: "Just thinking out loud here: who the hell does Bob Stoops think he is calling timeout with 51 seconds left?"
"It's a timeout that Bob Stoops will regret," wrote Jon Solomon in the Birmingham News.
From ESPN's website: "Oklahoma's Bob Stoops and Oregon's Chip Kelly made late-game decisions that propelled them to a two-loss season and helped cost their respective teams a shot at the BCS championship."
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