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\"If you leave off with a win, you'll feel better going into the offseason,\" receiver Kalib Woods said. \"You'll feel better sending your seniors off. You'll have something to build off of next year.\" \"I really don't get into all that because every team is a new team,\" [Travis Trickett] said. \"I've been on both sides; where you end the year awful and then you start awesome, and then you end the year great and you don't start as fast. There's a lot of stuff that happens between that last game and that first game.\" Florida Atlantic running back Devin \"Motor\" Singletary, here breaking free from the Old Dominion defense last week, has 491 yards and 7 touchdowns in the last three games. ; FAU's Azeez Al-Shaair, here sacking Rice's Tyler Stehling, wanted mango Powerade at practice the week leading up to the Owls' final game.; Michael Laughlin/Staff photographer ; Bob Levey/Getty Images

\"If you leave off with a win, you'll feel better going into the offseason,\" receiver Kalib Woods said. \"You'll feel better sending your seniors off. You'll have something to build off of next year.\" \"I really don't get into all that because every team is a new team,\" [Travis Trickett] said. \"I've been on both sides; where you end the year awful and then you start awesome, and then you end the year great and you don't start as fast. There's a lot of stuff that happens between that last game and that first game.\" Florida Atlantic running back Devin \"Motor\" Singletary, here breaking free from the Old Dominion defense last week, has 491 yards and 7 touchdowns in the last three games. ; FAU's Azeez Al-Shaair, here sacking Rice's Tyler Stehling, wanted mango Powerade at practice the week leading up to the Owls' final game.; Michael Laughlin/Staff photographer ; Bob Levey/Getty Images

The program's progress won't be on the Owls' minds when they welcome the Monarchs to FAU Stadium at 6 p.m. A different aura surrounds the Owls (3-7, 2-4 Conference USA) now. They injected confidence with a 17-point win over Rice, then expanded it by erasing an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit against UTEP. [Charlie Partridge] said he's noticed a maturation among the players. Players said they've noticed a greater sense of understanding their objectives. \"We're putting in the work,\" safety Richie Kittles said. \"We understand it. We lost games, but losing those four games really showed us what we can do, what we got to do, how we got to finish. We practice with better habits. ... We just do everything the way we're supposed to do it now.\"

Owls fans have expressed their displeasure with the current regime in a bevy of ways. One carried a \"Fire [Charlie Partridge]\" sign Saturday. An online fundraiser is underway to fly a plane over FAU saying \"Change is needed... Fire Charlie Partridge.\" They've slung tweets directed at the coach's personal Twitter account calling for his dismissal and some have just quit showing up at FAU Stadium. The Owls have drawn a combined 16,739 fans in their last two games, though one was a rescheduled contest due to Hurricane Matthew. \"I don't look at Twitter at all, so I have no Twitter response,\" Partridge said. \"I don't respond to Twitter. I really don't.\" \"The good news is they haven't wavered at all,\" Partridge said. \"We have a young football team and we had a bad Saturday. We didn't perform well. We didn't perform up to what we need to. We've recruited well, we've recruited young. Patience will be a virtue in this scenario.\"

[Charlie Partridge] was digesting the Owls' newest misstep (allowing a 30-yard touchdown to WKU's Anthony Wales that opened a four-touchdown lead) and perhaps absorbing the finality of FAU's third consecutive losing season. \"The issue has usually always been either somebody's not making a play or not fitting in the right spot, which you're going to get across the country with teams,\" FAU linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair said. \"It's just really hurt us and really showed on third downs.\" \"You can't change who you are,\" FAU quarterback Jason Driskel said. \"If we start over in camp, do camp the same way and we're 8-0 or whatever, we wouldn't change anything then, right? We come to work every day. We just have to execute better.\"

BOCA RATON - A navy blue banner drapes the southeast wall of Florida Atlantic's Tom Oxley Athletic Center, a reminder of history nearly a decade old. Printed on the banner is \"Motor City Bowl Champions\" and the year 2008. The banner celebrates FAU's most recent bowl berth. After that came a string of seven consecutive seasons without a postseason. It's an ugly stretch that could be officially extended when the Owls host defending Conference USA champion Western Kentucky (5-3, 3-1) at FAU Stadium today.

BOCA RATON - In Florida Atlantic and coach Charlie Partridge's world, a panic button doesn't exist. It didn't pop up after a program-worst loss to Kansas State or a Shula Bowl loss to FIU. It remained absent after a last-second loss to Charlotte and now after Saturday's 27-21 loss at Marshall. \"To throw everything you've worked to the wind and say 'You know what, we haven't won these close games,' that's a sign of panic, and we don't need to do that right now because we're in a good place,\" Partridge said. \"Kids continue to come back and fight and we're getting better,\" Partridge said. \"There are signs all over the tape that we're getting better as a football team. To do something like that would show a sign of unnecessary panic. I don't want to live in that world.\"

BOCA RATON - In Florida Atlantic and coach Charlie Partridge's world, a panic button doesn't exist. It didn't pop up after a program-worst loss to Kansas State or a Shula Bowl loss to FIU. It remained absent after a last-second loss to Charlotte and now after Saturday's 27-21 loss at Marshall. \"To throw everything you've worked to the wind and say 'You know what, we haven't won these close games,' that's a sign of panic, and we don't need to do that right now because we're in a good place,\" Partridge said. \"Kids continue to come back and fight and we're getting better,\" Partridge said. \"There are signs all over the tape that we're getting better as a football team. To do something like that would show a sign of unnecessary panic. I don't want to live in that world.\"

When Florida Atlantic comes to Huntington to face Marshall, it won't just carry the burden of a five-game losing streak. The Owls will carry the ignominy of being the first Conference USA team to lose to second-year member Charlotte. As a \"bonus, they'll carry the agony of losing on what could be called a walk-off video reversal. A Deadspin \"Screengrabber showed a video with an announcer saying, \"It looked like one foot was down in the end zone. & Hands were up, toes were down, one toe, two toes, I don't care how many toes, it was in, from our vantage point, at least, and we have the best view in the house.

\"It's painful to lose a close game,\" [Charlie Partridge] said. \"It's painful. It's painful for the coaches, the players, the fans, the supporters. It hurts because we put a lot into this and the players put a lot into this. The fans are invested emotionally and I hurt for them, as well.\" \"We don't have time to even focus on that,\" Partridge said. \"What we do is we attack the things we need to get better at and there's things across the board in all three phases that we'll continue to practice and fight to get better.\" \"It really comes down to our kids continuing to learn football,\" Partridge said. \"That's our job, to continue to teach them football so that we make those plays in those key moments.\"