Temple led by 14 with under 70 seconds to go. It lost in an overtime thriller at Toledo.
Toledo fought hard, but the Rockets just couldn’t compete with Temple’s offense, trailing 45-28 in the waning minutes of the contest. Or so we thought.
Right before the 2-minute timeout, Toledo stared down a 4th-and-8 from its own 19-yard line. The team was already 0-of-3 on fourth downs. Failure to convert would have mathematically solidified a Temple victory at the Glass Bowl. While the laws of probability suggested the Rockets would lose whether they converted or not, they kept their slim hopes alive as John Alan Richter delivered a 25-yard strike to Adjatay Dabbs on the do-or-die sequence…