Go to the 5:45 mark. Our staff doesn’t do this with a lead when they should (Lville) or when down 50 (Clem) to shorten the game. Maybe we know where we are currently (which is not a good football team) and want to just get as many reps as humanly possible for the on-field experience since nothing counts this season as far as eligibility? I don’t know, just guessing.
Against Clemson the best thing was just to treat each possession like normal to get the reps. Slowing the game down to limit possessions wasn't going to get us to win so there isn't much actual benefit to doing it. It would juts be window dressing.
Against UL you are just flat out wrong. We didn't have a lead, late, until 8:40 left in the game.
After we took the lead we had a 5 play drive that took nearly 3 minutes.
1st play clock wasn't running so doesn't matter.
2nd play - snapped with 6 seconds.
3rd play - snapped with 3 seconds.
4th play - snapped with 4 seconds
5th play - snapped with 16 seconds.
The last play is the only one where we didn't burn about as much as we could, but it was also a 5 point game. You have to try and score not just kill time. That play was the TD pass to Carter.
The last drive, up 12, was 3 plays.
1st play - clock not running so doesn't matter.
2nd play - snapped with 4 seconds.
3rd play - clock stopped due to time out so doesn't matter.
4th play - there wasn't one because we scored a TD.
We basically burned as much clock as we could late against UL.