A 12.95-point result that was tighter than the final margin suggests. At its worst moment — Monday, chance of victory reading 3% — Mals Pals looked gone. MaHomie N Herbie still held the lead as late as Tuesday, in a game that changed hands 3 times, before the run that decided it.
The tape shows where it was won: Mals Pals took 4 of the six positions, none more brutally than WR — 19.6 plays 38.2. Dak Prescott finished with 21.2, the biggest individual return on either side.
The revenge subplot was real: these sides had met before — week 3 (lost 101–105.3) — and Mals Pals had not won any of them until now.