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The thing about the college replay system is that most of the time, the coach's challenge is useless. The same man who will be making the decision as to whether to change the call is the same man who has made the decision not to stop the game for a booth review. So, a coach is put in a positionn where when the replay official does not stop it, he more than likely is wasting a timeout (and his only challenge) when he knows that if there was any doubt, the replay official would be stopping the game.
But, of course, you never know when the replay official's monitor may have gone dead or when a better angle might become available later. It is, however, a tough spot for a coach to have to decide whether to risk a timeout when he knows that it probably won't be overturned because if there was a chance of an overturn, it would already be under review.
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