Going for 2

[Husker66]

Finally we were on the good end of bad decision making. 45 years of watching football, Positive I haven't witnessed that before. he kicks, they get the Dub.

[huKSer]

Oregon = arrogant

[adc7236]

Happy to see Riley did not chase the point after the Ducks first 2Pt conversion. Helfrich "got cute" and did not play smart football by going for all those 2Pt conversions.

[shyndy]

They gave us six by going for two, we gave them six on that swing pass- could argue even a 14 point swing

[GBRFAN]

2 point conversions kind of show what each school is.

 

Oregon wanted the flash with their uniforms and going for 2

Nu is old school classic and kicked the 1 - glad riley didn't follow the ducks!!!

[Sparker]

It was refreshing to see a different team kill themselves with bad decisions, sloppy play and penalties for once. I can't remember the last time during a game that when I saw a flag I was confident it was on the opposing team.

[NebraskaShellback]

Game OVER! Good luck with the Hoke D Ducks.

[ColoNoCoHusker]

It was refreshing to see a different team kill themselves with bad decisions, sloppy play and penalties for once. I can't remember the last time during a game that when I saw a flag I was confident it was on the opposing team.

 

^ QFT. Somewhere around switching from beer to bourbon, I commented to my wife "It's like the 2016 Huskers are playing 2015 Huskers and the Ducks are us last year"...

[lo country]

At the half, Helfrich said he did the first one because "some guy" wasn't paying attention. Almost condescending IMO. Glad it bit him in the a$$.

[NUance]

I always wondered why teams don't do that sometimes--go for two every time, on certain opponents. I guess that's why.

[huskerdude171]

Kinda looked like the last 2 point conversion try was good for Oregon, the QB raced to the pylon and ended up hitting it, I guess they said he was already down, if he had just reached the ball out they would have had it, not like they would have won anyway, since it would've brought them to 34 points instead of 32.

 

I still think he got jipped a bit but I'll take it

[Landlord]

At the half, Helfrich said he did the first one because "some guy" wasn't paying attention. Almost condescending IMO. Glad it bit him in the a$$.

 

 

Condescending or just...true? It worked for them.

 

 

I don't see this as arrogance or bravado or flash or anything. Oregon has always done this - they're a high risk high reward team that has built an incredible program off of stuff like this. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

[Kernal]

Finally we were on the good end of bad decision making. 45 years of watching football, Positive I haven't witnessed that before. he kicks, they get the Dub.

 

If he kicks them all they get a tie. Or, like the announcers, are we only going to criticize the plays that didn't work, and not the same ones that did?

[Touchdown Tommie]

 

 

At the half, Helfrich said he did the first one because "some guy" wasn't paying attention. Almost condescending IMO. Glad it bit him in the a$$.

 

Condescending or just...true? It worked for them..

 

I don't see this as arrogance or bravado or flash or anything. Oregon has always done this - they're a high risk high reward team that has built an incredible program off of stuff like this. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

I took it as one of their guys was not paying attention and that is why they did not convert. It was where the guy rolled out and did a jump pass type play to the WR not paying attention. Maybe I misunderstood his explanation

[84HuskerLaw]

I think that statistically speaking, the odds of making the kick for one point are about 95% or more versus the chances of making the two point conversion of something around 35%. Just based on the 'odds', it makes sense to kick because over time you will score more points. However, if your are one the nation's best offenses, as Oregon has been in recent years, then your odds of successfully getting in the end zone from 2 yards or so are much better than 'average'.

 

Based on that, I would say, it seems very logical that Oregon SHOULD go for two on all extra points versus 'below average' opponents as their odds probably increase from 35% to 75%. I would say that Oregon probably averaged nearly 5 yards per carry just running the ball against us. And average per play much above 2 so logic indicates they should be successful, over a large number of tries, to convert more than half and therefore score more this way.

 

I also believe that Oregon's coaches most likely were very concerned that they would NOT score at will against our defense and therefore it seemed wise to attempt to score as many points as possible once in the red zone.