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Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Time to second-guess Nix?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Remember those “You Make the Call” commercials? They’d show a highlight clip and stop the video at a key moment in the game and ask what you’d do. You figure it out, then, after a commercial, get to see what happened. A situation like that came up during Saturday’s game between Georgia Tech and Notre Dame.
Tech faced fourth-and-1 at the Notre Dame 49 with just over three minutes left in the third quarter of a game the Jackets trailed by four points. Tashard Choice had just lost a foot on third-and-1. Up in the press box, we played our own version of “You Make the Call.” “You’ve got to punt here,” I said. “Go for it,” the reporter next to me said.
Tech punted, got only a touchback, and Notre Dame drove down the field and missed a field goal. The Jackets did get back into Irish territory midway through the fourth quarter, though, so it’s not like that fourth-and-1 situation was a last chance.
What were you saying on fourth-and-1? Go for it, or punt?
