Anyone with even a passing knowledge of college football knows that strange things can—and often do—happen at weeknight games.
On Thursday, a dash of weeknight weirdness briefly engulfed ESPN’s production.
With 9:56 left in the first quarter of James Madison’s eventual 20-9 win at Marshall, the Dukes faced third-and-2 at their own 25-yard line. As the crowd of 22,109 in Huntington, W.Va., rose to make itself heard, ESPN’s cameras cut to a shot of screaming Thundering Herd enthusiasts.
