It was a bad game between two bad teams in which the team that people thought to be slightly less bad won.

In fact, this wretched game was his final win as the head coach of the Michigan football team, a fitting situation for everybody involved. NU would finish with a 5-7 record for a consecutive year, capping off a frustrating two-year downslide that started after the team fell ever so short in a top-20 matchup against Ohio State in 2013, then proceeded to lose five straight one-possession games (for what itвЂ™s worth, Oliver said that UMвЂ™s Drew Dilleo told him that Michigan wasnвЂ™t set on their game-tying field goal in the 2013 matchup and that should have been a Northwestern victory).ДЇor the Wolverines, this was the final year of Brady HokeвЂ™s descent from the mountaintop after his amazing first season. вЂњIt was really one of those things where it felt in many ways like they were playing football for the very first time that day,вЂќ Sherman said, reminiscing on the infamous game and summing it up quite well.Дespite the past decade largely featuring winning season for both programs, the 2014 campaigns were ones theyвЂ™d probably like to forget.

The halftime M00Ning was preserved due to NorthwesternвЂ™s Nick VanHoose, who blocked a makeable Wolverine field goal right before the break.

However, the alert Michigan linebacker was well aware of the playвЂ™s odd nature and picked the tight end up in coverage without any trouble, indicating that this play was doomed from the moment the ball was snapped. Watching the play back, VitaleвЂ™s intentional whiff is very apparent. Even if he hadnвЂ™t slipped, he would have been absolutely destroyed.вЂќ вЂњThe right tackle was supposed to jump over and make up for the fact that he was not blocking, and that tackle just got obliterated, so now TrevorвЂ™s rolling right knowing heвЂ™s going to be throwing back left, seeing a guy in his face and also seeing a guy come up in the middle.

вЂњIt was a play where the tight end, Dan Vitale, pretends to fall down, and if done correctly, the defense overlooks him and heвЂ™s able to run back to the left side of the end zone where heвЂ™ll be all by himself,вЂќ said Oliver, who held signal calling duties for the вЂCats at the time. Poor Trevor Siemian probably faced some ridicule for falling down and ending his teamвЂ™s chances at escaping M00N with a victory, but as Oliver told Inside NU earlier this week, the fault on this play should not fall to the quarterback.

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