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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Northwestern Defeats Penn State 34-13

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Penn State 0 7 0 6 13
Northwestern 10 14 7 3 34
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u/Powerful_Hall Northwestern Wildcats 14d ago

So we have established that Colorado, Indiana, and Penn State are all much worse than everybody thought.

Or maybe the more logical explanation is that Northwestern is better than everybody thought?

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u/Isthmus11 Penn State • Cincinnati 14d ago

I came into this game expecting to lose, I think it's a little wild that people acted like you guys playing Indiana close somehow meant Indiana went back to being a bad team.

To be fair, I really didn't think we would get throttled and give up 400 rushing yards to y'all but hey. Whats life without it's fun little surprises you know?

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u/AdamOnFirst Northwestern Wildcats 14d ago

Chip Kelly: Wing T genius 

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u/Aragorns-Broken-Toe Indiana Hoosiers 14d ago

Turns out this Chip Kelly character may know a thing or two about football.

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u/AdamOnFirst Northwestern Wildcats 14d ago

He’s come out with a different look every week. Against Colorado we were full blown mesh-wheel merchants because Colorado couldn’t cover it. Last week, just vertical passing concepts the entire second half and evicerated the seems. This week, literal wing t. Like what the fuck, he’s a complete madman. 

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u/Aragorns-Broken-Toe Indiana Hoosiers 14d ago

Not to take away from the players but I think he’s largely responsible for the success. Penn St and second half IU both looked lost out there.

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u/AdamOnFirst Northwestern Wildcats 14d ago

It’s remarkable the players have been able to play such different styles every week. I’m genuinely unsure what passing concepts we even specialize in other than the crosser, double move corner, and shake post stuff Griffin Wilde excels at. A lot of the play action stuff is consistent week to week but the run action has also been hella varied. 

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u/Milton__Obote LSU Tigers • Northwestern Wildcats 14d ago

It’s cuz is a smart school that give me piece of paper sez im smert

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u/BuckeyeForLife95 Ohio State Buckeyes 14d ago

Chip Kelly is simply an offensive genius and always has been.

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u/jiuclaw Indiana Hoosiers 14d ago

Chip Kelly at OSU in 2024, one of two programs to defeat a Cignetti IU team… he comes in to a funded, hungry and talented Northwestern program this year and people are surprised that that game presented legitimate challenges for IU.

4 years into NIL and so many people are still refusing to accept that things have changed. I love it.

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u/Carpocalypto Oklahoma State • Nebraska 14d ago

Raiders fans would disagree

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u/ajhalyard Penn State Nittany Lions • Miami Hurricanes 14d ago

He's not really fit for the NFL. But as a college OC (not HC), just let him cook.

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u/ZeiglerJaguar Northwestern • South Alabama 14d ago

Those delayed handoffs — what would you call them? Counters? — were fucking fire. I’ve never seen anything like that before, and they absolutely gashed Penn.

It’s incredibly bizarre having competent offensive coordination.

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u/AdamOnFirst Northwestern Wildcats 14d ago

Just draws 

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u/ZeiglerJaguar Northwestern • South Alabama 14d ago

They didn’t look like normal draws, though. I want to see the film room on those. It was like there was a surprise player in the backfield who nobody expected.

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u/AdamOnFirst Northwestern Wildcats 14d ago

It’s not a new play, it’s like a sprint right draw, it’s supposed to look like a moving pocket before the delay instead of the traditional dropback delay