When starting place-kicker John Hoyland’s number was called with just four seconds left in the Arizona Bowl against Toledo last year, he hardly even broke a sweat. The Cowboys were down 15-13 in Craig Bohl’s final game of his ten-year tenure and Hoyland’s sole mission was to strike in a 24-yard chip shot to send his coach off on one final win.
Though Hoyland had only made two of his last nine field goal attempts heading into the Arizona Bowl, likely the worst stretch of misses in the fifth-year senior’s relatively accurate career, he still calmly struck the ball through the uprights like it was simply a routine drill in practice.