Kadeem Wise of UTC, left, slows the progress of The Citadel’s Dalton Trevino.The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team went from feeling sky-high midway through the third quarter Saturday, to the deepest depths of disappointment.
So what the heck happened?
“You tell me,” quarterback B.J. Coleman said after the Mocs’ crushing 28-27 loss to The Citadel at Finley Stadium.
After taking a 27-0 lead with 9:39 to play in the third, the 17th-ranked Mocs seemed well on their way to their first Southern Conference win of the season — and a comfortable one, too. What followed was failure in all phases of the game.
“It got to be one of those things where they scored [after an interception] and we kind of got back on our heels a little bit and it just started snowballing,” Mocs coach Russ Huesman said Sunday. “We couldn’t stop it, couldn’t get first downs offensively, and defensively we gave up a couple of plays that probably shouldn’t have happened.”