TROY — They held their enthusiasm for just an instant.
DK Billingsley was doing his best and running his hardest with nobody in front of him but green turf and a red end zone, but the Troy Trojans — and even Billingsley himself — were hooked on the cliffhanger.
“I did get a little tired,” Billingsley admitted after Troy’s 49-28 win over Georgia Southern on Saturday, positive that he didn’t take a sneak peek at a videoboard to check on his pursuers.
“I was not looking at the scoreboard,” he said. “I had tunnel vision on the end zone.