MACON, Ga. – Eventually, the mistakes being made by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team were going to come back to hurt the Mocs.
They had been able to ease by opponents on the road all season despite interceptions, lost fumbles and inconsistency in the red zone.
Saturday they dug a hole they couldn’t recover from.
The third-ranked Mocs had four turnovers, missed a field-goal try and turned the ball over on downs inside the Mercer 1-yard line. They still had a chance to pull out the win but fell 17-14 to the Bears in front of 9,527 fans at Five Star Stadium.
The loss – which ends UTC’s 12-game win streak in conference play – will assuredly drop the Mocs in the national rankings, but they still have a chance to win the conference title and the automatic bid into the playoffs by defeating The Citadel (7-2, 6-0) at Finley Stadium this Saturday.