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What We Learned: Takeaways from Ohio’s 35-6 loss to the Northwestern Wildcats

Anyone who has watched the Bobcats’ games this season knows we did not learn a lot about Ohio (0-4) versus Northwestern.

Many of the issues in the first three weeks resurfaced to foil any possibility of waving the ‘pirate flag’ in victory versus the Wildcats: penalties, missed tackles, injuries, run defense, offensive inconsistency, and special teams miscues continued to affect the Bobcats on Saturday afternoon.

While we took a good look at what has gone wrong for the ‘Cats so far after last week’s loss to Louisiana, there are some positives and storylines to watch for the ‘Cats heading into conference play, which begins with the play of a Bobcat running back.