Week 9
Time Management :
5 D-. 9 D.
Recruits
We lose 9… Still no one signed.
Our Game : #12 Indiana (6-0) (-13) vs #16 Northwestern (5-2) on TV3
Wisconsin 2 losses come with a 7 combined points margin. We are way overrated in today’s game.
RB Wittich and Niklos move the chains but QB Marzullo is still raw and throws an interception on his second pass today. They move all the field but stall in our 1 yard line and go for a FG : 0-3. We move nicely towards their red zone but are unable to complete a 3rd down attempt : 3-3 thanks to a Cash kick. And then comes our defense again. We force consecutive bad plays from their QB and the final touch is a DB Bergmann interception. However, the series are uneventful and we fail the 4th down attempt. After a few punts exchange, we win the territory battle and the following drive leads to a Marzullo TD pass to Wittich : 10-3. Just before halftime, DB Bergmann makes his second interception and with 1:30 left to play we could convert it into a few points, but actually we don’t.
Northwestern is not understanding what’s happening today as DB Bergmann makes his 3rd interception of the day, this time returning it 41 yards for a TD : 17-3. Woot ! Well, first action of the next drive saw their RB run 80 yards for a long range TD : 17-10. Bad ! The rest of Q3 is made of punts exchange and penalties on both sides. That’s ugly football. Q4 begins with much better football intentions and we manage to come close enough for a FG : 20-10. And once again, they score and 80 yard TD (this time on a pass) just after we score : 20-17. That’s too close… And then we see them mve the bal towards our end-zone. Then they enter our red zone, fortunately, OLB Jeans forces a fumble that is recovered by DB Dorrough inside our 10 yards. We run the clock and gain a lot of ground, but they quickly come back to us. And the bad news happen, we manage to slow them down but on 3rd and goal they convert and take the lead for the first time : 20-24. 1:08 left to play. On our first pass, BJ Marzullo is intercepted and the ball is returned for a TD : 20-31. We lose…And Marzullo is intercepted another time for a defensive TD : 20-38. This final score really doesn’t reflect today’s game. That’s a huge deceptive loss today.
Game Summary
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Game MVP: NWST 84 Brian Francis
Northwestern 3 0 7 28 - 38
Indiana 0 10 7 3 - 20
Team Statistics NWST INDI
First Downs 19 17
Total Rushes 34 35
Net Rushing Yards 187 75
Yards Per Carry 5.5 2.1
Rushing Yards 217 111
Tckld Loss/Yards 10-30 8-25
Sacked/Yards Lost 0-0 2-11
Pass Attempts 27 38
Completions 12 18
Passing Yards 231 223
Yards Per Attempt 8.5 5.8
Interceptions 3 3
Fumbles/Lost 1/1 1/0
Total Plays 61 73
Total Yards 418 298
Yards Per Play 6.8 4.0
3rd Down Plays 4/11 8/18
Penalties 5 8
Penalty Yards 50 56
Avg. Drive Start OWN 26 OWN 30
Time Of Possession 27:56 32:04
Indiana Stats
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Rushing Att Yards Avg Long TD Stufd Sackd
21 Wittich 16 17 1.0 7 0 7 0
41 Niklos 6 14 2.3 3 0 0 0
48 Kaplan 5 28 5.6 23 0 2 0
3 Marzullo 5 17 3.4 11 0 0 1
Passing Att Comp Yards Yd/At Long TD Int
3 Marzullo 38 18 223 5.8 31 1 3
9 Farrell 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0
Receiving Catch Yards Avg YAC Long TD
48 Kaplan 5 45 9.0 14 11 0
89 Jeffries 3 65 21.6 22 31 0
21 Wittich 1 10 10.0 0 10 1
Defense Tkl Asst Sack Int IntYd IntTD
44 Dorrough 8 1 0.0 0 0 0
98 Ellis 7 3 0.0 0 0 0
31 Bergmann 0 0 0.0 3 51 1
Injury Report
We lost DT Toombs for the rest of the season too with a severe hamstring pull. DL injuries have finally came this year as usual.
Around the Big 10
- Michigan 17-10 Michigan State
- Minnesota 20-42 Iowa
- Penn State 12-17 Ohio State
- Purdue 7-35 Illinois