When you’re football team is playing catchup, sometimes the correct answer is to just take whatever points you can get and settle for a field goal, rather than no points. But sometimes, depending on where in the game you’re at and what the score is, deciding not to go for it can be a little puzzling. © USA TODAY USA TODAY That’s what happened Saturday in the Ohio State-Michigan game, and college football Twitter had some questions. And a few jokes. After some incredibly costly mistakes – including Michigan being offsides as Ohio State was about to punt late in the second quarter – the Wolverines were trailing, 28-13, and at 4th-and-goal on the Buckeyes’ five-yard line with only 19 seconds left in the half. Their offense was looking pretty good against the nation’s best defense, putting up 285 first-half yards, 250 of them through the air thanks to quarterback…
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