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Arizona vs UTSA 2014, The Red Wedding

In the "Game of Bones" story series, we revisit our teams' most crushing defeats and most glorified victories. Moments that ruined dreams and ended eras as well as moments that brought triumph and established a powerhouse. UTSA's 2014 loss to the Arizona Wildcats was the Roadrunners' Red Wedding.

Before the rise Tom Herman's Houston Cougars, the crown of NCAA Football's mid-majors belonged to no one. There were strong teams in Conference USA like Marshall, Rice, Western Kentucky, and Louisiana Tech but there wasn't one true ruler.

In central Texas there was a young Roadrunner program hailing from the Alamo University, UTSA.