It appears that The Citadel football mojo hasn’t gone anywhere.
A team that continued to find ways to win during an undefeated 2016 Southern Conference run is off to a similar start this season.
The Bulldogs rallied from a seven-point halftime deficit to beat East Tennessee State 31-25 on Sept. 17 in Johnson City. After a week off, the eighth-ranked Bulldogs visit No. 23 Samford (2-2, 0-1), which is coming off a late loss to Western Carolina last week.
Samford led by 10 points with six minutes to go in last season’s meeting in Charleston, S.C., only to see the home team rally to force overtime, make a defensive stop and kick a field goal for a 37-34 win.
During his Tuesday news conference, The Citadel coach Brett Thompson spoke of things that happened in the first half of the ETSU game that “weren’t typical of us.” Yet the result was the same as it had been the previous nine conference games and 16 of the last 17, with his team finding a way to win.