Posted by acn24 on 6/30/2010 12:27:00 PM (view original):
I think that we'll see some extremes just because of roster and game planning contraints that we have, that real life coaches don't have.  To use the Wisconsin/Portland St game as an example - Wisconsin didn't start running a slow down/hold ball offense until 1 minute left and a 130-43 lead.  In a real game, that would have happened when it was a 40+ point game with 16 minutes remaining.  The size of rosters (and the complete uselessness of every walkon, at any level) also affects this.  In a real life game you would be seeing walkons playing most of the last 10-12 minutes of this game, but because we only have 12 roster spots and most teams go 9-11 players deep we don't have the group of walkons.  And even though Wisconsin's walkon actually looks like he might be a decent D3 player, because of the way depth charts are structured - most coaches don't even bother to put their walkons on the depth chart, so they never play.