So when a team is in hurry up mode like OSU was on that last possession, why do the receivers and backs jump up really quickly after getting a first down and get the ball to the official as fast as possible? The offense should want the clock to not start right? The clock cant start until the ref places the ball. So you should want the ref to take as long as possible to set the ball so the offense get to the line and get set before the clock starts yet I always see offensive skill position players getting the ball to the ref as quickly as possible after getting a first down and the clock not running. Then the ref sets the ball and the clock starts but the offense isn't all set on the line yet so you lose valuable seconds. Pretty stupid imo.
Also, you should always burn your timeouts on defense. The utes had the ball with under 2 minutes left and it was looking like they wouldn't score and they knew it so they ran the clock way down. OSU had a timeout and the ability to stop the utes from running the clock down yet didn't use it. On offense you can get first downs to stop the clock, spike the ball to stop the clock, get out of bounds to stop the clock etc. Its stupid to save those timeouts for offense.