With sweat rolling down his head, Hunter Woodard sat quietly, listening intently to offensive lineman Josh Sills rip into his fellow linemen at the half, knowing that he needed to control his nerves if they were going to win.
“That’s really when it started to click, that I just had to slow it down, trust all the practices we had, trust my teammates and that’s when I started to get the nerves under control,” Woodard said.
Offensive linemen Cole Birmingham and Hunter Anthony had both gone down with injuries earlier in the game, thrusting Woodard into action against Tulsa.