This team was five plays away from being 9-3. 5 losses by 5 or less points. Out of hundreds of plays ran this season, to some, the difference between this season being a major success and a disappointment was 5 plays.
- Colorado- the easy one to see. Reed’s personal foul.
- Troy- the punt return. There was a pretty blatant block In the back on that return that wasn’t called. Troys offense really didn’t do anything that day and I believe if they call the block in the back, we’d win that game
- NW- I’ll stay away from the penalty theme, though I think we were cheated here too, but we stop either of the 4th down conversions NW made at the end of the game, we obviously win
- Ohio State- so many what ifs. The block punt, Lightbourns awful kick off. But the play that would have won us the game in my opinion is JD’s drop in the 3rd Q. He scores on that play if he catches it and we go up 12 or even 13. I think that play was the difference
- Iowa- obviously that 4th down. I think even Ferentz believes that if they don’t get that 4th down, they’d lose the game. A team doesn’t go for 4th & 8 @ Home if they think they can win in OT. That was a do or die play. They don’t convert, the chances of us winning over them swings to like 90%