Ten minutes and 33 seconds in, Dak Prescott was disgusted. He had just watched Louisiana Tech quarterback Jeff Driskel throw a 16 yard pass to Trent Taylor, putting Tech up 14-0 over Prescott’s Mississippi State team.
Prescott was P.O.’ed, to paraphrase his own words. Typically, State’s quarterback is the happy-go-lucky, upbeat, brush-it-off-your-shoulders kind of guy. But not in that moment, not when some other team had come into his stadium and passed up and down the field on his defense and twice kept him from reaching the endzone he considers to be his.
“It actually made him angry,” head coach Dan Mullen said.