Northwestern dominated the first twenty minutes and outscored us 17-0. Extrapolated, they win a full game 51-0.
We won the last forty minutes 20-0 and held them to virtually negligible total yardage. Extrapolated, we win 30-0, and it should have been worse .....there was a crazy disparity in penalties, including two botched calls that wiped out two huge plays - Shea's keeper and DPJ's punt return.
Notre Dame was the same story. They dominated the first eight minutes 14-0 and we won the last 52 minutes by 17-10.
Don Brown's defenses often seem to allow a first drive TD, but these games featured multiple early TDs. The UM defense dominated long stretches of both games, but not before creating a hole. What's the story? I honestly can't remember ever seeing these types of early defensive problems followed by utter domination (and both the NW and ND offenses were utterly dominated for most of those games).
We won the last forty minutes 20-0 and held them to virtually negligible total yardage. Extrapolated, we win 30-0, and it should have been worse .....there was a crazy disparity in penalties, including two botched calls that wiped out two huge plays - Shea's keeper and DPJ's punt return.
Notre Dame was the same story. They dominated the first eight minutes 14-0 and we won the last 52 minutes by 17-10.
Don Brown's defenses often seem to allow a first drive TD, but these games featured multiple early TDs. The UM defense dominated long stretches of both games, but not before creating a hole. What's the story? I honestly can't remember ever seeing these types of early defensive problems followed by utter domination (and both the NW and ND offenses were utterly dominated for most of those games).
