SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Believe it or not, Cole Tracy can, from time to time, miss a field goal.
It’s rare, of course. The graduate transfer was no good just four times all season, and after his four-for-four outing in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl on Tuesday, he’s the most prolific NCAA kicker in history – 97 career makes, including an LSU single-season record 29 in his only season in purple and gold.
But his college career began, in a short-lived trend, with a miss.
“It was a 33-yarder on the right hash,” Tracy recalls of his first attempt as a freshman at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.