WHEN TRICKERY BACKFIRES. Last year, Chris Lawrence posted video of Trinity beating Millsaps with a lateral-rich kick return. Today I saw what can go wrong with such trickery. Northern Illinois kicker Mike Salerno put the Huskies ahead with seconds remaining. Bowling Green had plans to play catch-and-run on the runback, but the play was a bit slow developing and one Northern Illinois player got a hand on the first pass and a second one came down with it. On the next play somebody false started from the victory formation, not that first-and-fifteen rather than first-and-ten with under five seconds to play matters.

Northern Illinois won the toss and deferred. They received to start the second half, with Bowling Green deciding to defend the windward mark goal. There's nothing like using over ten minutes of the third quarter to beat to windward score a go-ahead touchdown. Sometimes the logical decisions backfire too. (Who said "get a good start and sail on the lifted tack" didn't apply to football?")

Earlier in the day, Chief Runs-from-Huskies stumbled in a badger hole.