MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Ballcarriers keep racing toward the goal line and then, for some reason unknown to mankind, they’re dropping the ball inches shy of the end zone.
It has happened four times this season in college football, an epidemic of carelessness so prevalent that maybe it’s not careless at all: Maybe it’s an initiation into a secret society. And maybe we just wrote the opening scene to “Skulls IV.”
These players endure all the weight-lifting, offseason conditioning, 95-degree practices and film study only to squander breakaway touchdowns one yard away from the payoff.