HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech Huskies football coach Dan Mettlach is not always sure which version of the Huskies will come out of a bye week, the one ready to play, or the one that takes time to get warmed up.
Saturday, the Huskies raced out to a quick 7-0 lead against Wayne State on the road, and had a chance to expand that lead, only to see the Warriors score 21 of the next 28 points.
“It was exactly the start were looking for,” he said. “Score on the first drive, got a turnover on the very first play of defense, and the sequence in the next offensive possession didn’t go how we wanted to. You have a drop on first down, that gets you into first and goal inside the 10. Then we put the ball on the ground ourselves, ended up covering it, but just a bad stretch offensively. That next drive, th