This Thursday at UB Stadium, we saw something out of UB’s football team that we hadn’t seen in weeks: fight.
Coming into Thursday as a 17.5-point home underdog against a good Akron team (5-4, 3-2 Mid-American Conference), Buffalo played their best game of the season, not only scoring an upset win, but doing it in dominating fashion. There was nothing fluky about Buffalo’s 41-20 win, which culminated with a near-perfect 21-point fourth-quarter from UB in which they stepped straight on Akron’s throat and put the game away, as well-coached teams often do.
It was a stark reminder that this UB football team, despite it’s 2-6 record and string of blowout losses, still has a lot of talent, and when that talent is coached up properly, this team is more dangerous than its record would indicate.