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FGs have always made me nervous if they outnumber TDs.

UGA 16  UK 6

OK, the weather was not great and I could see Smart limiting the offense because it was pretty clear UK wasn't going to score again.

UGA 26  Mizzou 22  Four FGs in a row for the Dawgs and down 22-12 in the fourth, not looking good at all.  

"Lucky" to pull that one out, I think Mizzou tired.

For shits and giggles I looked this up.  There have been 13 games in WVU history where the Mountaineers have kicked 4 FG or more and they are 12-1 in those games.  Some are pretty good wins in the school’s history.  A 26-6  win over Florida in the 1981 Peach Bowl that was really Nehlen’s first notable win here.  A 19-18 win over a top 20 Maryland team with Boomer Esiason where WVU stopped a 2 point conversion very late that would have won the game. And then in 2009 beating a top 10 Pitt team 19-16 with the 4th and final FG coming at the gun.

The one time I can remember an opponent kicking a bunch of FG to beat WVU was Miami in 2003.  They kicked 5 FG to win 22-20 with the last one coming as time expired.  Still one of the 5 most gutting losses I’ve experienced as a fan.

Coach Osborne didn't care much for FGs

Especially 4th and less than 5, he'd just run the damn ball in that territory and play defense

Of course, most times it was vs an over matched opponent

Also, Osborne didn't have great kickers and therefore, not much faith

Great story about a friend of mine, Dale Klein, from Seward, NE. He lived in the same dorm and my roommate was from Seward.

Dale started the 85 season missing his first 3 FGs.  Klein, a Husker walk-on kicker whose name is still in the NCAA record book, That day in Columbia, Mo., he was 7 for 7, helping the Huskers escape with a 28-20 victory over Missouri.

Scoring 22 points with an NCAA- record seven field goals and an extra point. Quite a day for junior who wasn't sure he was the Huskers' No. 1 kicker the weekend before and ended up kicking more field goals in one afternoon against Mizzou than the six career field goals he'd kicked leading up to that game.

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Interestingly, even though Klein got the biggest headlines for that Oct. 19, 1985, kickers were getting mentioned all day long on national telecasts. Texas kicker Jeff Ward, for instance, scored all of his team's points that day after kicking five field goals to lift the Longhorns over No. 4 Arkansas, 15-13, in Fayetteville. In an even bigger game, Rob Houghtlin also accounted for all of his team's points when No. 1 Iowa beat No. 2 Michigan, 12-10, in Iowa City.
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I was at the game in Iowa City.

Should we infer anything from this about Oklahoma?

I concur, and they "almost" beat UGA of course.  They've been mostly competitive.

I still can't figure out the TCU thing.

Should we infer anything from this about Oklahoma?

I'd infer the 'ol "defense wins championships".

Drive for show, putt for dough.

The weirdest one off the top of my head was 2008 vs. Wisconsin.  MSU kicked 4 field goals and won 25-24.  They were outrushed like 300-20, and turnovers were tied.  But MSU had like a 100 yard edge in penalty yardage, including one that wiped out a long Wisconsin TD run, and a Bielema meltdown that gave MSU 15 free yards to put them near FG range at the end.

Looks like MSU has kicked 4+ FG in a game 22 times.  3 times they have kicked 5.

One was in a 36-0 win over Wisconsin in 1988.  The other two times, both happened in 1998.  One was a 29-5 (scoragami?) win over Northwestern.  The other?


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