MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Listening into Rick Stockstill and Tyson Helton's weekly press conferences this week made for a slightly eerie experience, as the Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky head coaches, respectively, went through the similarities between the two programs.
Beyond the two schools' close distance, a little over 100 miles on I-24 and I-65 or a little under 100 miles on US-231, the football programs offer a host of similarities. Offenses that love to throw the ball first with coordinators who cut their teeth in the air raid. Defenses with aggressive blitz packages that like the gamble for takeaways.