The final drive of Saturday's game in Jones AT&T Stadium had many twists for the Cincinnati football team.

An injury to Xzavier Henderson on the first play resulted in a 10-second runoff for the Bearcats, who began the drive at their own 10-yard line trailing Texas Tech 44-41. Wanting to hold on to his final timeout, head coach Scott Satterfield elected to let the clock wind down to 1:26.

It was a play later in the drive that left Satterfield baffled after his team's loss. Quarterback Brendan Sorsby ran for a short gain and one official flagged Texas Tech's C.J. Baskerville for targeting. After review, the call was reversed and the Bearcats had to use the timeout or let another 10 seconds run off.

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There was some confusion on Cincinnati's sideline not just about the thrown-out targeting call, but why Baskerville wasn't penalized for a late hit. Sorsby appeared to begin sliding as Baskerville and Jacob Rodriguez moved for the tackle.

"I couldn't really quite understand what he was trying to say on that one," Satterfield said. "I was really angry on that because when you give yourself up, you're not supposed to get hit."

By Satterfield's recollection, officials told the Cincinnati coach that there was no late hit on the play, and the flag had only been thrown for the targeting infraction. Once again, Satterfield opted to hold on to his timeout, costing Cincinnati another 10 seconds of clock.

"He calls the penalty, they end up taking it off, yet we still get penalized for 10 seconds," Satterfield said. "We got screwed on that one."

The reason Satterfield was given for this 10-second runoff was because Sorsby went down inbounds. Had a flag not been thrown, the clock would have continued to run, so when play resumed, the clock was reset to 48 seconds. The flag had been thrown with 58 seconds on the clock.

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Cincinnati continued the drive and settled for the game-tying field goal try. Nathan Hawks' 51-yard attempt went right and the Red Raiders escaped with the three-point win.

"Would've loved to have a little extra time at the end," Satterfield said, "because I feel we would've had an opportunity to go down and probably get into the end zone."

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Cincinnati football coach reflects on pivotal play