Offensively we did fine against CMU down the stretch, but defensively, not so much. Ohio's 20 in the second half is very comparable to NIU's 31 in 3 quarters. The difference was the 16 Ohio gave up which turned out to be too much.

Have dried out from my visit to EMU-land. Was a soggy day, with spots of sunshine, but a nice win against an EMU team that came out fired up from the loss of a teammate.  I arrived late, but fortunately they had a few seats left, and got to meet Deciduous Forest Cat. I also got to talk to some EMU fans, and they were friendly and good hosts. Despite the weather, I enjoyed the visit.

Haha.. They were $10 at the window - general admission (sit wherever). Reported attendance was 3900, i think, which was 2-3x too high. It was band day, and there were only a few bands in attendance - 8 total, i think, only 3 seemed to have more than a handful of people. The shame is, it's actually a very nice stadium.

I'm back home already. You did leave to early, though. The sun came out for most of the 4th quarter. As the game was ending, though, my son and I sprinted for the car as the sky was turning very black, and it was very clear than another wave of rain was on the way. We made it in time, but it did pour again shortly after.

It was nice meeting you and your family, too. They all seemed to be having some fun, despite the weather. I hope your return trip was also safe.

Ohio's offense is performing pretty well. If they can get the run game moving a little better, it will be a real force. The defense, however, has been giving up far more yardage on the ground than I'd like to see.  Hopefully they can find the answer before we face Buffalo and BG.

Just thought I'd bring this one up again so those who saw the loss to CMU and subsequent wins against EMU and redhawk as indicating that we were playing good ball.....as opposed to some of us who saw reality.