I noticed it when the second TO was called and the scoreboard still said USC had 2 left. Someone on the UT staff should have noticed and gotten it corrected then. I said something to my wife about it at the time, but never imagined it would end up mattering.
I was unexpectedly impressed with the defense, they played lights out. If we run the ball just a few more times with Warren we win that game. The bad snaps and lack of calling running plays are my only 2 big gripes. There are certain situations were you have to run the ball and Warren should have had at least 10-15 more carries.
Would like to know if one of their timeouts was indeed converted to a tv timeout. If so then this is a non-issue. Even with some bad calls or lack of pass interference calls, complete lack of running game, freshman QB, bad snaps, injured lineman, we still should have won this game.
What is the talk of a timeout being converted? If a team calls timeout, how does that happen? "Oh no, that's okay, you don't need to use a timeout, we'll just show some commercials." Hmmm......
I don't think there is such a thing as a TV timeout in football other than the scheduled TV timeouts around changes of possession/injuries. There is the full timeout which allows for TV time and does not end until the commercial/TV face time is over, but one of the teams have to call that one.
Correct. You don't just get to randomly decide that a TO is TV. One of three things has to happen to trigger a TVTO. 1) Change of possession 2) Injury 3) Some other stoppage of play (power outage, lightning, etc). Any other TO has to be called by a participating team against their allowance of 3 TO's per half.
Quite frankly I agree. I have never seen a tv timeout in the middle of a drive unless there is an injury. They don't just say, "Hey, I know you've got the ball six plays into a drive so I guess we need to show some commercials and what a coincidence that you were going to take a timeout too."
Has anyone figured his out? Was one of the TO's actually an injury TO? I would have hoped that someone at Texas would be yelling about a 4th TO, but nothing seems to have been said.
You would think that question would have been asked at the presser. Must have been a non issue I guess.