When OU played Georgia in the Rose Bowl after the 2017 season, it went to OT. In the 1st OT, OU held Georgia to a FG, then had the chance to win the game. On 4th and 2 or 3 inside the 10, Lincoln Riley decided to kick the FG. Even before we made the kick to tie and send it to OT, I was quite sure that that decision had sealed our fate--we were going to lose the game. And we lost in the 2nd OT. We couldn't even convert the "automatic" FG.
He should have gone for the 1st down to go on and score a TD. The fact that the FG was the higher percentage play to execute, and that we made it, doesn't mean it was the right decision. He effectively chose to put the game on the shoulders of his crappy defensive unit instead of his record-setting offense. I will go to my grave--well, probably worrying about more important things than that football game--but I'll always believe that Lincoln made the wrong decision there.