By james art CINCINNATI — Saturday night’s 34-23 loss to the Bearcats largely slipped away in a brutal sequence to end the first half.
Colorado was stopped inside the UC 15-yard line and held to a field goal to make it 17-14, leaving the door open for a field goal with about two minutes left in the half.
Enter a short drive to midfield and a running clock for UC on 4th-and-1, which UC elected to run with three timeouts and was subsequently stuffed approximately 20 seconds later. It was a torturous series of events left idle in the timeout.
Scott Satterfield discussed the snap call after the game.
“One of the biggest plays of the game, I thought, was the fourth down and the one we had right there in the middle of the field,” Satterfield told the media. “We didn’t want to give them the ball back for obvious reasons. We felt good about this game. We didn’t get the first down. It was the play of the match. And we give them the ball back and they were able to go and miss the covers in the backfield and hit Travis (Hunter) for a touchdown right there … It was a one-possession game that makes it a two-possession game really was the play of the game Offensively , we didn’t put our defense in a good spot.”
Sanders led the TD charge to close the half on Travis Hunter’s 34-yard TD grab and Cincinnati went into the locker room with all of their timeouts. Margins are super thin in these types of atmospheres, and letting the Buffs win the middle eight minutes was a major difference.
Satterfield also plunged into the right analytical decision to be down by two eight points late in the fourth quarter.
“That’s the math,” Satterfield told the media. “If you don’t get that, then you’ve got to get the next one. If you get that (first two-point attempt), then you kick the next one … I think if we were at home, that’d be a time when we probably just went the extra point.”
Cincinnati gets a much-needed bye week to get a few players healthy and regroup before the home date against West Virginia. See Scott Satterfield’s full press conference at the beginning of this article.
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