By MONTE DUTTON

I watch game after game on TV or listen on radio and hear the same word over and over and try not to use it, but there’s no way around it.
Presbyterian College’s football season is unbelievable.
The Blue Hose detonated Morehead (Ky.) State, 41-0, on Saturday afternoon at Bailey Memorial Stadium, and it was the first time all season they played another team that doesn’t award scholarships.
Presbyterian (5-0, 1-0 PFL) hasn’t begun a season in such spectacular fashion since 1959.
Sixty-six years! Nine straight over two seasons! No scholarships!
Steve Englehart’s miracle workers have defeated Mercer, Furman, Erskine, Bluefield (Va.) and, in the Pioneer Football League opener, Morehead State. How do they do it? It’s the fascination of my year. It’s mostly what I ask about after the games.

The Blue Hose are bona fide. They’re certified. They’re countrified. They’re dignified. They’re unified.
In an age of portals, names, images and likenesses, Englehart’s lads are as old-fashioned as a skillful mix of Crown Royal, simple syrup and bitters. I’ve never had one. I don’t understand it, either.
Presbyterian dominated a team it lost to, 14-7, a year ago. This time the Blue Hose outrushed Eagles nearly threefold, 303 yards to 123, amassed more total yards. 445-227, and led, 35-0, at halftime, which was not as unusual as it seemed. PC has scored at least that many three weeks in a row, matching the length of its homestand.
It was the first shutout since the Hose blanked Newberry, 10-0, on Nov. 11, 2006, when the opposition was popularly known as Indians and the nearby school was an annual rival.

Senior Zach Switzer, from Spring Hill, Tenn. was unstoppable as the Blue Hose extended the nation’s longest winning streak to nine games. He scored three touchdown and rushed for a career-high 158 yards.
Another Switzer was among the 3,661 watching. Barry Switzer, 87, coached Oklahoma to three national championships and the Dallas Cowboys to a Super Bowl triumph. He is Zach Switzer’s grandfather.
Meanwhile, PC’s defense didn’t allow a passing yard in the first quarter. In the game, Morehead State (2-3, 0-1) yielded three interceptions and a fumble recovery and failed in all five fourth-down attempts.
“That’s really something to hang your hat on, particularly in a conference,” said roving defensive lineman Carter Szydlowski, a senior from Mount Pleasant, Tenn. “We’ve beein through a lot here, and you take everything [personally], whether it’s first down, second down, third down, fourth down, I don’t care what down it is. We’re coming to play.”

The Blue Hose say bye next week before taking a whistle stop to Indianapolis on Oct. 11 to face Butler (3-2, 1-0), which slipped past Marist, 31-28, in its PFL debut.
PC’s early homestand ended without any latter-half intrigue in victories over Erskine, Bluefield and Morehead State.
In the opening half alone, Switzer rushed for 150 yards on just five carries, scoring from 66 and 79 yards via his specialty and catching a one-yard TD pass from Collin Hurst.

Hurst? He hit 10/12 passes for 122 yards and two scores. He enjoyed a relaxing fourth quarter savoring his typical efficiency.
Senior Caleb Francis became PC’s Division I leader in interceptions on Morehead State’s first possession and added a ninth career pick in the fourth quarter.
It didn’t even rain much, except figuratively on the Eagles. Morehead State’s Carter Cravens hit 10/24 aerials for 120 yards, yielding Francis’s two reversals.

PC averaged 9.4 yards rushing as Justin Montgomery joined Switzer in triple digits with 106 yards in 13 carries. The Eagles averaged 3.4 yards on the ground, bolstered by Bryce Patterson, who managed 37 yards in three carries.
Presbyterian rides the nation’s longest win streak: nine games over two seasons. As Mac Davis sang, “Oh, Lord, it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way.”

Englehart, who has led PC from 1-10 to 4-7 to 6-6 and now 5-0 in his four seasons, tries.
“What everybody doesn’t see, and what I’m impressed with, is the preparation that goes into it, and how our kids prepare and how our coaches prepare. Our kids come to work every single day. They always have great energy. They push each other. They believe in each other. They trust each other. They love each other,” he said.
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