They played college football before they went into nursing. It couldn’t have prepared them for this.

After the daily practices and team meetings are finished and all the assignments are doled out, the only thing a player can’t be prepared for in a game is momentum.

“It’s one of those things where you kind of feel it happening on the sidelines,” former Miami Hurricanes running back Patrick Hill told me last week, “and you don’t want to believe that it’s going to happen if you’re the one” it’s happening to.