With 14:57 left in the second quarter on Saturday, Khari Blasingame punched in a touchdown run that gave Vanderbilt a lead of 11-10, extra point pending. Derek Mason sent out Tommy Openshaw to kick the extra point.
This was absolutely the correct move.
Why don’t you go for two in this situation? After all, a two-point conversion would give you a three-point lead, thus meaning that a field goal would merely tie the game. Whereas there’s no difference between being up one and up two... right?
Well... not really. All of this is true if you get a touchdown to go up one point with two and a half minutes left in the game.