Every week, our Ian McCafferty will go back and critically review one or more plays from the past Saturday's game. These are the plays that, more than any others, were crucial in determining the outcome of the game. He'll check the film, and breakdown the how and why of those decisive few seconds.
Northwestern is back in the win column and that means we're going to look at something that Northwestern did right instead of one of their shortcomings. We haven't broke down a Clayton Thorson-centric play since the Ball State game so it's time to take another look at how the redshirt freshman is doing, especially in the running game.