The WKU football team (5-3, 4-1 C-USA) fell down 17-0 early in the second quarter against Marshall (5-3, 3-1 C-USA) on Saturday, but the Hilltoppers stormed back to tie the game 23-23 with 6:17 left to play in Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia.
Marshall kicker Justin Rohrwasser, who’d already established a new career-long field goal with a 46-yarder earlier in the game, was forced to make a 53-yard field goal attempt three separate times after head coach Tyson Helton called two timeouts in an attempt to ice the redshirt senior.
But fate wasn’t on the side of the Hilltoppers— Rohrwasser knocked it in easily each time, and WKU had its four-game winning streak snapped in heartbreaking fashion against its Conference USA rival.