Northwestern on the verge of 5-0 makes me puke

When you have Northwestern representing your division, your division has a major problem.

Well they have a top notch defense that just makes little plays. A Wisky pass in the first half with them threatening was just barely tipped by a jNW lbkr then diverted off the receiver for an INT. Fitzy had an excellent, experienced defense like this a few years ago when they won the West.

They just make plays and tackle very well. The teams that beat them will go over the top, make plays, and stretch their defense, then run on them.
 
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Yeah and they made our players fumble at Purdue too right?
No of course not....but a team that was in turmoil, circling the drain because of the off and on field issues with racism in the program. However, give Ferentz and his staff credit.....they got this shipped righted...and arguably Iowa looks like the 3rd or 4th best team right now in the entire conference. I think the best in the West. And, I called Iowa a baadddd team to start the year (which they looked that way. Maybe a better phrase would have been a rotten egg circling the drain and looked like it quit on its coaches. This could turn out to be Ferentz's best coaching job if they run the table.
 
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Kudos to Northwestern.....they know who they are and they don't waste games trying to figure it out.
 
Kudos to Northwestern.....they know who they are and they don't waste games trying to figure it out.

Yep, they plan to win with defense, make the game ugly, win the turnover battle, they have a really good transfer QB which is very lucky for them as I dont think they had another very good qb on the roster looking at last year. Notice that jNW can win the division but only occasionally when they have a loaded team then with graduations they have to build a few years to reload, unlike Wisky and OSU.

jNW is known around the league for the DLine holding the offensive line to muck up the blocking, their offensive line holds a lot and this is not sour grapes talking because you can go all the way back to 1994 or so when Darnell Awtry ran wild over teams to see the holding going on. But the are jNW and they are smart with their holding mostly by doing it in close to the body.
 
This thread reminds me a little of 2015 when we went undefeated in the regular season and we didn't look good enough doing it for some people. Look, if you win, you win. It's not easy. Northwestern doesn't look flashy but they are getting the job done. Going in to yesterday, I didn't think they had a chance against Wisconsin. I thought the 7 1/2 point spread was not near enough and Wisconsin would cover easily. Give credit where credit is due.

When we played them we were pretty lucky to be up 17 points early and it was due to turnovers. Once Northwestern righted their ship, they pretty much had their way with us. Now, I fully believe if we played them today it would be a different game because we are playing so much better. But you don't get do-overs.
 

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