Welcome back to FFFF. After a one week hiatus for the bye week, this column is rested and ready, much like (hopefully) Michigan's football team. This week's opposition is the Northwestern Wildcats, who sit this season at 3-3, having beaten the bad teams on their schedule, while not being terribly competitive against the better ones. For years Pat Fitzgerald has exceeded expectations at Northwestern in spite of a dreadful offense, one that seems to be about as bad as usual this year from a bird's eye view. Is that the case when we look at it up close? Let's take a look:
The Film: For this piece focused on the offense, we're using Northwestern's game against Nebraska from Oct. 2. Northwestern has played (in my opinion) only two good(ish) teams in Nebraska and Michigan State. Of those two, Nebraska's defense is a better schematic fit when making comparisons to Michigan. If you remember the FFFF on Nebraska's defense from a couple weeks ago, th
Football On Saturday night, Northwestern gave up its most yards under Pat Fitzgerald in one of its worst losses in recent history. A 56-7 to Nebraska (3-3, 1 -2 Big Ten) dropped the Wildcats (2-3, 0-2 Big Ten) started with a 70-yard pass from quarterback Adrian Martinez to give the Cornhuskers first and goal, and.
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