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Clock management was just about the worst I have ever seen there at the end on any level.
You absolutely 100% spike it there and give yourself 3 shots at the endzone. Coaching staff blew it by not yelling for the spike.
I don't know exactly when it happened, but at some point QBs seemed to decide that they would no longer spike the ball to stop the clock. It used to be such an automatic play, to the point where (actually, maybe this is why they stopped doing it) QBs did it TOO much--when there was enough time left that it was better to save the down. But now you see QBs hustling up to the line, and then PAINFULLY having second after second burn away while they audible plays. It's awful. Yesterday, just spike the ball!! They'd have 15 seconds, time, as you say, for 3 plays. Just awful.
And I was rooting for Alabama. (Whose failure to use TOs at the end of the first half was equally crazy.)
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