The game was over. No amount of cope can change that.
You know what makes it worse? Running the ball 3x in a row gave them a BETTER chance at winning than just kneeling it out 3 times. There was quite honestly better chance at a fumble and scoop for a touchdown followed by an onside kick, than them scoring twice starting with the ball at their own 10 with no timeouts.
Exactly. And it has happened in the last year in a game in an ACC game between Miami and Georgia Tech. Miami is up by 3 with the ball with 43 seconds left. Tech has no time outs. There's a 40 second game clock.
As many have said here, the game is literally over... until Miami did a stupid...
When the game is over, you kneel the ball. Anything else is stupid.