There are some football games where you can point to one specific play that leads to success or failure. Sometimes is a big gain or turnover that swings the momentum one way or another. On Saturday, it wasn’t one play in particular that led to the Cougar’s demise.
It was death by a thousand paper cuts.
There were false starts, missed blocking assignments, lots of dropped passes, killer penalties and unfortunate turnovers. A couple of mistakes here and there are forgivable but when you add them all up together it’s hard to overcome.
There were two specific drives that really did the Cougars in.