Quote Originally Posted by td577 View Post
Anyone can take individual plays out of any game and say if only...

If you watch this game 100 times and even with everything that went right and wrong for either team there are a couple of absolutes. NDSU dictated the pace of the game. Being out of rhythm favored the Bison and it was intentional. This was not a pretty game. That was intentional. This was more of a 2013 type game than 2017. CK and NDSU made a clear choice to turn this into an ugly game. This was a valley showdown.

NDSU ate time. Jmu ran out of time. The Bison forced jmu to make decisions. It wasn't easy in patterns, it was good coverage with good pressure forcing jmu to think on plays they normally just run.

NDSU played the way they played because they had the lead. Life would have been different if the Bison fell behind at any point of the game.

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Great summary. JMU wants to say, "JMU lost, NDSU didn't win" but that isn't true. NDSU DID win every aspect except punts. And they won because they had more points. Not because JMU dropped the ball, "bad calls," etc.