LEXINGTON, Va. – Not all records are created equal.
Saturday proved that.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga earned its first victory of the 2017 football season and for head coach Tom Arth, racing out to a 35-point halftime lead on the way to a 63-7 defeat of host Virginia Military Institute in front of 5,311 at Foster Stadium.
The 63 points were the most ever by UTC in a Southern Conference game, topping the 59 scored against Appalachian State on Oct. 30, 2004. The Mocs had 42 points in a half of a league game for the first time since they scored 42 in the second half of that 59-56 come-from-behind victory over the Mountaineers.
Both teams entered Saturday’s game with 0-3 records, but they clearly were not equivalent. UTC’s losses were to teams ranked in their respective Top 25s (Jacksonville State, LSU, UT-Martin), while the Keydets had fallen to Football Bowl Subdivision member Air Force, Robert Morris and NCAA Division II school Catawba.