My word, that was beatdown. You could have told me that Michigan State would beat Northwestern on Friday night and I would have believed you. You could have told me they won by multiple scores and the ‘Cats looked objectively bad and I wouldn’t have said you were crazy. But to get mollywhopped on national television largely due to DEFENSIVE incompetence was so far off the reservation deck one could have not spotted it off the coast of Lake Michigan.

Let’s get it over with already.

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Hunter Johnson

He was far from perfect, double-pumping a few too many throws while also harming the offense with some untimely lapses of ball security, but Johnson looked better against Michigan State that he has against any opponent he’s faced while wearing a Northwestern uniform.