It's a good thing this is a defensive football game OH WAIT South Dakota is on pace to score 42 points today.
No offense, but you're just wrong. NFL teams go for it there and I'm pretty sure they know more about football than you and I do. This isn't a 2010 SEC game or some bad weather game like Rams-Niners on Thursday where it's going to end up 13-10 and points are at a premium. We need touchdowns today.
Yep, this is huge right here. Even if we can hold them to 3, you get a chance to make it a 3 point game coming out of the half. But stopping them altogether would be huge.
It seems counterintuitive but I wonder if no Lan makes it a bit harder for the SD defense in the short term. You've spent all week focusing on containing Lan and all these plays UCD runs for him and now he's out and they're running a whole different set of plays.
I don't like calling a timeout there. I know you want the ball back but it's only 3rd and 3. Let them run the clock to the 2 minute warning and call it after that if you get a stop. Those 26 seconds likely aren't killing you.