UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — In the week leading up to SMU’s game against No. 21 Cincinnati, Rhett Lashlee prophesied what would happen.
Twists and turns? He expected plenty. Some punches that teetered on being knockout blows? He knew multiple were on the horizon. But that would be OK. Channeling his inner Rocky, he told his players the difference in Saturday’s game — the recipe for winning, as he called it — would be their ability to respond to those moments and keep fighting back.
“Things are going to go our way, we’re going to make some plays,” he predicted, as long as his team never quit, “and that’s what happened, but obviously we came short.”
