I’ve seen people criticizing him for not going on in to score and put Horns up by 14, leaving Mizzou with about 1:30 left with 2 or 3 timeouts remaining. Others praising him for going down inside the 5 allowing us to run off more clock and make Mizzou use their remaining timeouts.

I’m in the latter, I think it showed incredible football IQ, situational awareness, and unselfishness. We were pretty much guaranteed a FG to put us up by two scores, and leave Mizzou with about 20 seconds left with no timeouts. In this day and age I find his awareness and unselfishness very refreshing.

My hats off to Greyson. 🤘🤘

12 minutes ago, UTTUCK said:

I’ve seen people criticizing him for not going on in to score and put Horns up by 14, leaving Mizzou with about 1:30 left with 2 or 3 timeouts remaining. Others praising him for going down inside the 5 allowing us to run off more clock and make Mizzou use their remaining timeouts.

I’m in the latter, I think it showed incredible football IQ, situational awareness, and unselfishness. We were pretty much guaranteed a FG to put us up by two scores, and leave Mizzou with about 20 seconds left with no timeouts. In this day and age I find his awareness and unselfishness very refreshing.

My hats off to Greyson. 🤘🤘

Very true in the Me era. Great Iq. Great teammate to not think about himself and put the team first

I did not have issues with it. He knew Texas was up by one score and he returned it deep enough for a very easy field goal at worst.

Bro, if he scored, we go up 14, they have two timeouts. We would be in a situation like we have 100 times before, where it comes down to an onside kick. And the same people saying he should have scored would now be saying he should’ve went down

1 hour ago, UTTUCK said:

I’ve seen people criticizing him for not going on in to score and put Horns up by 14, leaving Mizzou with about 1:30 left with 2 or 3 timeouts remaining. Others praising him for going down inside the 5 allowing us to run off more clock and make Mizzou use their remaining timeouts.

I’m in the latter, I think it showed incredible football IQ, situational awareness, and unselfishness. We were pretty much guaranteed a FG to put us up by two scores, and leave Mizzou with about 20 seconds left with no timeouts. In this day and age I find his awareness and unselfishness very refreshing.

My hats off to Greyson. 🤘🤘

Graceson Littleton

🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

26 minutes ago, MikeyHookEm said:

Bro, if he scored, we go up 14, they have two timeouts. We would be in a situation like we have 100 times before, where it comes down to an onside kick. And the same people saying he should have scored would now be saying he should’ve went down

This

I think he should have scored. Understand his thinking, especially after watching us with onside kicks. But our D was totally shutting down.

40 minutes ago, MikeyHookEm said:

Bro, if he scored, we go up 14, they have two timeouts. We would be in a situation like we have 100 times before, where it comes down to an onside kick. And the same people saying he should have scored would now be saying he should’ve went down

They scored a td and took a little more time off.

I agree it was an unselfish play and a high iq play.

He knew he could have scored and did that anyway. To me it was unselfish but it was also another confidence piece drive offense.

He said, here ya go offense…. I’m showing confidence in yall to handle business…. Go put the stamp on this

9 minutes ago, Sugabread said:

They scored a td and took a little more time off.

Yea I was watching lol I’m all for the slide

55 minutes ago, BurntOrangeHorn said:

Graceson Littleton

🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

Yup! I love and hate this play!! Love that he had the situational awareness and selflessness to slide and force them to use their timeouts as well as effectively guaranteeing a 2 score victory. Hate it because, you earned that obscure that TD my man!! Either way hell of a kid and football player!

His play would have only made sense, if Mizzou couldn't stop the clock.

They had 2 timeouts and forced us into an awkward decision to either go for it or kick a FG.

(I'm glad Sark punched it in)

Graceson was overthinking it.

It’s a smart play by Littleton.

By taking a knee, Littleton cost Mizzou their 2 remaining timeouts AND burned another 50 seconds of clock time…while still giving Texas a two-score lead. The last part is the most inportant point: whether Texas ran the ball in for the TD, or simply took a knee 3 times and kicked the FG, the result is the same - a two score lead for Texas. Littleton’s choice simply cost Mizzou both timeouts and :50 seconds.

By contrast, IF Littleton would’ve chosen to score the TD, then Mizzou has 1:40 to play and two timeouts, but they would still be trailing by two scores.