You can’t lie, you had some hope that Northwestern would somehow come back and upset Iowa last night.
There’s no need to fib, I felt it too. Everyone that stuck around in Ryan Field stayed for that hope. Everyone who decided to keep watching on TV instead of switching to a far more appealing football game kept it on to hope.
The reality of the situation, though, is that we were all a bit foolish to feel that way.
Luckily, our hopes were shut down pretty quickly. Almost immediately after getting the ball back in the final two minutes of action down only five points, Andrew Marty threw an errant pass that landed in the hands of Iowa defensive back Dane Belton, slamming the door on any comeback.