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.
Welcome to Season Three of Inside the Play because for some reason they still let me write these. Northwestern got off to a very Northwestern start on Saturday, but turned things around in the second half. Northwestern couldn’t have done that without fantastic quarterback play from Clayton Thorson and his ability to stretch the field in the passing game.