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.
Finally, after the third try, Northwestern is in the win column in 2016, and that means we get to break down some of the plays that actually led to a win for the first time all year. It wasn’t perfect, but the Northwestern offense played one of its better games under Clayton Thorson against Duke.