AFTERGLOW THREAD: MICHIGAN STATE 35, NORTHWESTERN 27

Down 17-0, 24-14 in the 4th, seems worthy for some DoJ action.

for the fact that we are an Undefeated team, and each win is just taking us to heights we haven’t been to since 1966

29 of 43, 329 yards, 3 TD’s

that “Mousetrap” actually worked.

FUCK YOU BOB GREISE! AND YOUR IDIOT SON TOO!

but I’m still kind of pissed about the hole we dug ourselves into.

We can’t pull this crap against Iowa next week and we can’t be a 2nd half team anymore.

8-0! 8-0!!!

Had an Adrian Claborn/JJ Watt kind of game. Especially big in the 2nd half.

For as awful as that first half was, this team really stepped it up and got it done, pure and simple.

And I never really lost hope. I was surely concerned, but I was well aware we always had a chance.

I’m believing in you guys. And I love it.

If the Badgers want to go ahead and de-cleat a couple of Hawkeyes….um…..yeah.

People were looking at me kind of funny. I must have been cussing a little louder than under my breath.

A ton of credit to Northwestern. They played the uptempo spread to perfection in the first half. I think it was OTE and LTP commenter Chadnudj that suggested the wet track might help NU more than MSU, and he was right. MSU’s run game looked sloppy because the OL and RBs couldn’t get traction for the zone stretches and cutbacks, plus NU did a great job with run blitzes and slants and linebacker play.

Fortunately, both the MSU offense and defense made adjustments in the second half.

And how about that delay of game to sell the Mousetrap, huh? Giant, massive stones.

NU was pretty impressive. If they can bring that level of play all the time, they are an 8-win or even 9-win team.

And I’ll admit, I was yelling at Baker to go down after getting the first. But credit to the D for getting it back to finish the game. This team is finding ways to win games they would have found ways to lose, in the past. Regardless of what happens next week, it’s been a heck of a ride.

What about Cunningham – ball was on a string! Moron commentators: “Baker may have scored too quickly”

…that happens during a special season. Pure and simple. Everything went wrong in the first half: 20 yard run on the first play from scrimmage called back for holding, not converting 2 third and 1 plays, NU fumbles but ruled incomplete and not even reviewed, Conroy misses first kick of HIS CAREER, ‘Queze gets hurt and NU converts a 3rd and 18 when his replacement (Mitchell White) loses his assignment, Rock loses the rock for our first turnover in, like, forever, biggest weapon Keshawn goes down and doesn’t return, DJ Young goes down, and NU moves the ball at will. To overcome all that, to keep fighting, and to show some serious cajones in the 4th quarter is maybe the best statement about a team. A team that is now smack dab in the middle of a seriously special season.

Two thoughts:

WHEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

and

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

LSU vs Auburn game – just had the same clock issue as our ND game – play clock is at zero, then the snap (but within the “gap” for the back judge to check the clock and then check the snap).

announcers obviously think the flag should’ve been thrown, don’t act really too sure on the rule, either.

that John Clay has a TD in 13 of 14 games – and we were the team that held him to less than 100 yards and NO touchdowns.

Two things:

That game took eight years off my life also,

and seeing B.J. Cunningham make that miraculous catch in the end zone in the 4th quarter will rank up there as one of the most ecstatic moments of my life.

That’s the score of today’s 4th quarter.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet your new & greatly improved Spartans.

GO GREEN!!!

Wiscy beats Iowa, two huge wins in a row for the Badgers. It’s all setting up perfectly for MSU.

SpartyOn’s IDIOT OF THE EFFIN WEEK AWARD

And MSU’sthe only unbeaten left!

I figure it’s either Cousins for OPotW or Bates as STPotW if the streak is to continue.

As it turned out, MSU was baiting the trap with its whole fourth-down charade. The Spartans had noticed on tape that NU junior cornerback Jordan Mabin, when he guarded gunners in "safe punt" situations, would chuck his man for about 10-15 yards and then peel toward the sideline to avoid having the coffin-corner punt bounce off him.

So, on fourth-and-11 following the delay penalty, punter Aaron Bates lined up deep and MSU gunner Bennie Fowler (No. 13) lined up wide right in his usual gunner position. Northwestern kept its regular defense on the field just in case Michigan State tried something funny, but it turned out the visitors only needed to fool one guy.

Just as the Spartans figured, Mabin chucked Fowler for several yards and then headed toward the sideline to avoid disaster. That explains why Mabin couldn’t find the ball and went in a circle as Bates lobbed a pass downfield to Fowler for a 21-yard gain and first down.

From the Daily Herald

that’s doing your homework.

Not that surprising, though I thought the computers might have bumped us past TCU.