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 breakdown the how and why of those decisive few seconds.
This week, we go in depth into the play on which the future of Northwestern football truly arrived: Clayton Thorson's 42-yard rushing touchdown.
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Mark down 6 minutes and 27 seconds left in the first half of Northwestern's Week 1 game against Stanford as the exact moment that the Clayton Thorson hype train officially left the station.