No, this isn’t about the point spread.

This is a memo to Tom Herman. When you’re in reasonable field goal range and it’s fourth down and it isn’t a fourth quarter do-or-die situation, take the damn points.  Going for it on fourth down may make you feel manly but it’s not the smart play. I don’t care what your binder says. Take the points. Tom Landry always took the points. Take the points.

Oh yeah, you can say that Oklahoma is going to score a lot of points and you need all the points you can get. Exactly, that’s why you take the points. Even if you’re inside the Oklahoma five yard line, you take the points. The argument that if you don’t make it you still have them pinned inside their five doesn’t work because it’s highly unlikely that your defense can keep their offense pinned.

See you again tomorrow.

Hook ‘Em,

W.E.