It's hard to believe the Horns only scored seven points when you see how well we blocked and ran the ball. We never broke the big one but we hammered out a bunch of five through twelve yarders while controlling the LOS with our offensive line. Both RB's supplied nifty moves while piling up yardage but weren't able to get into the end zone. We played very well most of the time but somehow managed to shoot ourselves in the foot before we finished off a drive. The bottom line is we couldn't make the plays when we needed to for a variety of reasons.
Offensive Report Card
The good news is we held the number 1 football team in the nation to twenty four points in a hard fought battle before a full house of orange faithful. Most of us probably hoped for a slightly smaller number but since they scored twenty two last year I think twenty four was a very realistic number if we are totally honest with ourselves.
Defensive Report Card
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