You’re not gonna believe this, but C-USA came down to a game with a lot of points. WKU won for the second year in a row, 58-44, over Louisiana Tech, making for two straight 10-win seasons in Bowling Green, just 10 seasons after the program joined FBS.
WKU defends C-USA title in highest-scoring FBS conference championship ever
Oh, Conference USA was decided by a high-scoring thriller? Again?
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The previous records: the 2012 Wisconsin-Nebraska Big Ten Championship and 2013 Auburn-Missouri SEC Championship.
There were bowl ties at stake as well, since the winner gets to pick from C-USA’s bids. Louisiana Tech favors the Heart of Dallas Bowl, while Western Kentucky prefers the Boca Raton.
The Conference USA Championship has become perhaps college football’s most reliably high-scoring conference title game, with both teams scoring at least 20 points in all but one meeting since the game started in 2005. WKU beat Southern Miss last year in this game, 45-28.
Jeff Brohm’s offense was firing all day long, including this aggressive shot from Mike White to Taywan Taylor when the game was already just about decided, which led to the capping TD by Anthony Wales.
White and Taylor finished the day with 436 and 194 yards, respectively, which are pretty common numbers for WKU. Wales finished with four touchdowns and 262 total yards.
Let’s be honest, WKU and LA Tech needed to rematch. The 55-52 LA Tech victory earlier in the season was plenty of fun, featuring a 21-point comeback by the Hilltoppers that fell just short. The two had a little history, too:
This will be the 7th all-time meeting between the two. So far, the home team has always won. There has been one neutral site meeting, the 1973 Camellia Bowl, which was the inaugural Division II national title game and only prior time they met in a championship game. La Tech won that game 34-0. The two most recent games were decided by 3 points; 41-38 WKU in 2015.
How explosive was this game? Let’s just say this was tweeted with 5:45 left in the third quarter.
From the start, this game was coming straight for the FBS record of points scored, set last week by Syracuse and Pitt (137), but things calmed down a little in the second half.
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