Kent State football coach Sean Lewis repeated the same mantra all-season long.
“We need to run the ball well, and we need to stop the run. We do that, we win.”
Lewis credits that style of play to what won the Flashes the Mid-American Conference East Division title, to how they got to play in the MAC Championship Game against Northern Illinois.
And Lewis was right. Kent State did not run the ball, and it did not stop the run.
And KSU lost 41-23 on Saturday.