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The Blitz: What happened for UTPB to beat Texas College 96-0
UTPB gained attention across the college football landscape with a 96-0 win over Texas College. Many factors led to the final score, including the Steers having 25 players from their two-deep roster pulled off the bus hours before kickoff.
The final score read 96-0, and many in the college football world reacted with curiosity. Was this a case of a good NCAA Division II team playing a bad NAIA team? Did UTPB run up the score in its head coach’s debut game to ‘make a statement,’ or did Texas College provide plenty of assistance to the margin of defeat with poor execution that led to turnovers and mistakes?
The answer combines everything above and one more significant issue - Texas College had 25 players pulled off the bus just before departing Tyler en route to Odessa.
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