BOWLING GREEN — A seven-overtime football game bends the fabric of time. It turns contests with normal, respectable halftime scores — Eastern Kentucky 24, Bowling Green 17, for instance — into eye-popping, basketball-esque shootouts. It requires a lot of skill and almost as much luck.
But as much spotlight as a marathon game bestows on the winner — and the Colonels received plenty of attention after beating an FBS opponent for the first time since 2014 — it casts the loser in an equally harsh light.
“I would’ve loved to have been able to walk into the media room and say ‘God, that first half reminds you of the past, and that second half was awesome,’” coach Scot Loeffler said when the Falcons’ 59-57 loss Saturday afternoon was history.