With time winding down in the final quarter of the Boca Raton Bowl and my game story still in fragments with a lot of organizing left to do, something occurred to me as I was sitting in the press box at FAU Stadium one week ago: a lot of stuff happened in the WKU football program this year.
Much like the game I had just watched—a 51-31 trouncing of Memphis by the Hilltoppers—there were almost too many noteworthy events in the 2016 calendar year to keep up with, and the only way to truly reflect on it is to take a bigger step back and look at how far the program has come over the past half-decade or so.