Oklahoma’s players zoomed to the line of scrimmage in an attempt to beat the play clock. Meanwhile, Matlack slowly jogged to his spot on the field in hopes of preventing the Sooners from running a play.
The gamesmanship worked. Oklahoma began its substitution with 19 seconds left on the play clock and the Sooners were flagged for a delay-of-game penalty before they could snap the ball. Fourth-and-5 became fourth-and-10 and OU coach Brent Venables reluctantly decided to punt.
K-State football coach Chris Klieman successfully used a substitution rule to his advantage and cleverly got the Wildcats’ offense back on the field without making a tackle.
Both Klieman and Matlack deserve credit for that. Turns out, the Wildcats practice slow substitutions on defense.
“Absolutely,” Klieman said during his weekly news conference on Tuesday. “You have to. That’s the rule. If you substitute, you have time to match that substitution and we knew it was a critical situation. They substituted late, and I screamed in the headset, ‘Send somebody, send somebody!’”
The gamesmanship worked. Oklahoma began its substitution with 19 seconds left on the play clock and the Sooners were flagged for a delay-of-game penalty before they could snap the ball. Fourth-and-5 became fourth-and-10 and OU coach Brent Venables reluctantly decided to punt.
K-State football coach Chris Klieman successfully used a substitution rule to his advantage and cleverly got the Wildcats’ offense back on the field without making a tackle.
Both Klieman and Matlack deserve credit for that. Turns out, the Wildcats practice slow substitutions on defense.
“Absolutely,” Klieman said during his weekly news conference on Tuesday. “You have to. That’s the rule. If you substitute, you have time to match that substitution and we knew it was a critical situation. They substituted late, and I screamed in the headset, ‘Send somebody, send somebody!’”
