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.
There have only been a handful of Northwestern games this year in which we can say there was one play that the entire outcome hinged on, and unfortunately Saturday against Ohio State was one of them. Despite a valiant effort against the nation’s sixth best team, Northwestern needed one more defensive stop to get the ball back and couldn’t do it.