The coin toss for a college football game is a fairly simple thing. A captain from the visiting team calls heads or tails and ordinarily, if he wins the toss, he gets to choose whether his team will receive the kickoff to start the game or he can defer that choice to the second half.
Apparently one of Texas’ team captains Saturday night against UCLA had trouble understanding this.
The Bruins won the toss and elected to defer their choice to the second half. At this juncture, Texas was given the opportunity to choose whether to receive the opening kickoff or go on defense. When this happens, 99.9 percent of the time, a team will choose to receive the ball to start the game since it will not have the opportunity in the second half, but inexplicably, Texas chose to kick.
So UCLA wins the toss and elects to defer. And then Texas chooses to kickoff. So UCLA will get it twice.
— Bruin Report Online (@BruinReport) September 14, 2014
Jim Mora was seen on the big screen mouthing "We get the ball twice?"
— Bruin Report Online (@BruinReport) September 14, 2014
The ref even turned the microphone off to explain to the Texas captain what he was doing. And they still chose to kick.
— Bruin Report Online (@BruinReport) September 14, 2014 Texas coach Charlie Strong wasn't pleased.
Fortunately for Strong, his defense was able to stop the Bruins to start the game, but the Bruins will have an extra possession because of the gaffe. It remains to be seen if it will cost the Longhorns.
For more Texas news, visit Orangebloods.com.
For more UCLA news, visit BruinSportsReport.com.
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