Staff photo by Olivia Ross / Baylor and McCallie football fans fill the stands at Finley Stadium during Thursday night's TSSAA Division II-AAA BlueCross Bowl. McCallie beat rival Baylor 34-28, ending the Red Raiders' reign as state champions and giving the Blue Tornado their fourth title in five years.
There was simply no way for the game to live up to all the hype.
And then it did.
Perhaps the most impressive takeaway from Thursday night's TSSAA Division II-AAA BlueCross Bowl state championship showdown — even more than the 18,149 fans who packed Finley Stadium — was how, from start to...
