Monarchs Mash Marshall Season With 38-14 ODU Win

NOV. 5, 2016 – Marshall football fans knew what could be coming, but since 2007 it had not come this early to a end of a Herd season, but that happened on Saturday in Norfolk, Va. at Old Dominion as the Thundering Herd lost its seventh game of the season, 38-17, to drop to 2-7 with three to play out the season. The Herd is now 1-4 in Conference USA games.

The last time Marshall hit the 7-loss, no bowl eligibility mark this early was in 2007, when Mark Snyder’s Herd team had its seventh loss on Oct. 21 in a home loss to Southern Miss. When Doc Holliday’s team in 2012 and 2010 went 5-7, they knew on the last game of the season in ’12 when the Herd lost in double-overtime at East Carolina, and…