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Inside the Play: An end-around and a fumble take down the Wildcats

Related Topics: End-around, Fumble

Every week, our Ian McCafferty will go back and critically review one or more plays from the past Saturday's game. These are the plays that, more than any others, were crucial in determining the outcome of the game. He'll check the film and break down the how and why of those decisive few seconds.

All of last year we only had to look at a negative play twice, now in 2016 this will be the fifth time we have to look at a play following a loss. It wasn’t a particularly interesting game, and there were only a handful of big plays, but there were two that wound up being incredibly important to the outcome of the game.