Jon Sumrall Explains His Decision to go on 4th Down in 3rd Quarter vs. Sooners

Yeah, so the fourth and short, I felt like we were down 13-7. I felt like it was going to take 14 points, at least. And we hadn't been down in the red zone enough for me to feel real confident that we were going to get a bunch more trips. And so I made the decision, the analytics that we use, the book we use that everybody uses said fourth and three or four, kind of there. And so we felt like we were at the right line to go get it. And just did not know how many more opportunities we were going to get in the red zone. So it felt like with us down six, kicking a field goal, we hadn't had that many trips down there. We needed to try to get a touchdown there. Um You know, I could be wrong. I thought E might have gotten grabbed a little bit. I couldn't see it clearly. I'm sure it was officiated perfectly. And then on the flip side, Mateer obviously had an effective day through the air, but what did you see from him in the ground game, what he was able to pick up in those third and short situations? Yeah, I thought they did a nice job of staying on schedule, something I've talked about us not having done recently. And put themselves in more manageable third downs. Their quarterback run game was effective. They had answers. Like I said, they didn't end up in a whole lot of third longs. It didn't feel like. And I thought they had a good plan. They played the game in more 12 personnel, like they had maybe earlier in the year. That was kind of more indicative of what they started the year doing. It kind of been a little bit different the last few weeks. There was a change of pace maybe from what you've seen about the last month of them, maybe from a personnel standpoint, but their quarterback did a nice job of making some run game things stay on drives and keep their drives moving forward, they did a nice job.