LAFAYETTE — Of course it ended that way.
It wasn’t right for Louisiana-Monroe to endure another loss to rival Louisiana-Lafayette on a last-second field goal.
This time it was left.
Jared Porter pushed a 34-yard kick left of the goal post with two seconds left. While ULM (5-7, 4-4) wore another season of “almosts” exiting Cajun Field, UL Lafayette (10-2, 7-1 Sun Belt) headed for the locker room and another victory cigar following a 31-30 win on Saturday night.
“It was wide right last year and wide left this time,” ULM head coach Matt Viator said. “I’m just speechless. We were right there in position again and couldn’t get it done.”
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And it all came down to that. After Alabama dropped our leader’s double game in the Iron Bowl, and John McKay rallied with 5 wins, led by Georgia’s 20 point double win over The Wreck.
Coach McKay needed Louisiana (19.5 point faves) to avoid the upset vs La Monroe. How fitting that in this, the Greatest Pool in the History of the World, that it would come down to an obscure game that only the 8 of us would give a crap about? As soon as I realized it, with about a minute left in the game, I text the two of them the status of the pool. And then it ended. Wide left. Unreal. John McKay celebrates. And Dave falls to 2nd place. Dave’s pool to win in 2019, only to end at the hands of a kicker.
Two kickers.
After his Bama kicker doinked the upright and missed the game-tying FG in his double game.
A season that ends will live forever in our memories. Welcome to the pool….
Zendejas.
And congrats to John McKay. We’ll officially “crown the champion” next week. But we have a handful of games left – a season-ending re-cap will follow the season.
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