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Quadruple doink, Middle Tennessee outlast Rice in wild 40-34 double overtime thriller

Rice Stadium was closed off to general attendance, but there was a different kind of silence in overtime while the Collin Riccitelli’s 45-yard field goal soared through the crisp air. The football suddenly collided with the right upright. As it fell, the pigskin situated onto the crossbar. After seemingly a minute passed, it traveled to the left upright. And while all players collectively watched in confusion, the ball returned back to the crossbar. And suddenly, like an old VHS tape, the football was ejected from the uprights and onto the blue turf of the end zone. Rice missed on the ever-elusive quadruple doink.