Can you explain to me why MSU went for 2 with five minutes left in the game (last week) and ended up losing by 1pt.?
efF ND
“All week long, I’d said that if we get close to the end of the game, we’re going for two. We’re going to take an aggressive approach and play to win the football game rather than to tie a football game at the end. That’s what I felt like we wanted to do, so we had a number of play selections. They had us covered up on that particular play. Good job by them. I felt like we still had an opportunity with four minutes to go that the risk would be that if we stopped them, we still had the opportunity to get the ball back and kick a field goal and win the football game.”
Being 2-7 with no possibility for a bowl game, plus the fact that we had almost 5 minutes left to stop OSU and attempt another drive (which almost worked,) I can't disagree with going for two.
Now, going for two at the end of the Michigan game, when a simple PAT would have put us behind by 6, that I didn't understand. We failed that two point conversion as well, and UM intercepted and ran it back for 2 points.
Cause they were 3-7 on the season and wanted to be bold in going for victory or death. It’s the right call.