I think in any game, or any three game stretch, if half of your plays are running up the middle for a 0.6 average, that the clearly most risky dangerous thing you can possibly do is keep running it up the middle. I’m 100% certain of that.
It was stubbornness, thankfully stubbornness they got over in time to salvage a very good season. The team wasn’t too young against Ohio and suddenly not too young against OKSt a week later. They stopped banging their heads against a wall, they didn’t suddenly gain years of experience in a few weeks.