UB loses wide (gulp) right

by Steve

God damn it. UB almost stole one at Central Michigan today. After scoring a touchdown with less than two minutes to go to cut the CMU lead to 2 points (after UB earlier in the game missed a two point conversion that the announcers thought UB in fact did make [I haven't seen a replay it wasn't on tv]). They recovered the onside kick and began to drive. After a first down near mid field the clock inexplicably did not stop and the Bulls lost atleast 10 seconds.

Fast foward, UB got down to the 29 after 2 yard run by Starks and was ready to kick a potentially game winning field goal. Snap good, hold down, ball up, and it hit the right up right. They probably didn't deserve to win, they couldn't stop CMU in the second half after owning their offense in the first half with a 5-3 lead.

This is still a tough loss to swollow. A big win at a solid football team at or near the top of the MAC could have propelled the program to near superstardom. Instead they have to now settle for merely hanging in there with one of the conference's best.

The season is still farrrrrrr from over and if UB continues to play as solidily as they have been playing there is little doubt they'll be in the hunt for a conference championship game and maybe, maybe a bowl game. Its just too bad it is Willy's last year and they have only redshirt freshman as the back up, so who knows where the program goes next year.

Oh well, seven games left 6 in-conference and a prime time voting day spectacular 11/4 on ESPN2. See ya in Amherst in two weeks after the bye against Western Michigan.