I was ready to write this team off.
The second the punt team stepped on the field to kick from the Western Kentucky 34 yard line, I had decided I’d heard this song before. Derek Mason was going to play the field position game and hope the Hilltoppers would hand the game back to him in the fourth quarter. When Sam Loy’s ensuing punt bounced through the end zone (a net of 14 yards), I knew there was only one way the followup drive would end — with WKU taking a seven-point lead.
The prediction held true.