BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green was a team in desperate need of a big play.
It was the Falcons’ possession of overtime Saturday against Marshall, and the Thundering Herd had taken a 31-28 lead on a 38-yard field goal mere moments earlier.
When senior quarterback Matt McDonald lined up in the shotgun on first-and-10 from Marshall’s 25, the generator of that big play emerged. But it wasn’t McDonald. It was a little-used special teams player who’d come up big against UCLA and Eastern Kentucky, but had run the ball only sparingly.
Junior running back and Whitmer graduate PaSean Wimberly broke a 23-yard run on Bowling Green’s first scrimmage play of overtime.