The second half minus the McCaffrey TD was about as good of D as you could ask for, and that TD was IMO 90% misalignment and guys subbing in and out too much. Had we been set and ready I doubt it would have happened. We did a real good job bottling them up especially in the second half. My favorite was seeing them do one of the almost false counter plays where McCaffrey looks to follow the line and then he doubles back and we were right there smack him to the ground. We consistently limited him throughout the game. Also, other than the bomb pass broken coverage TD, most of their passes we short, well run routes but ultimately didn't go for much passes, just wish we had on a few of their drives in the second quarter during 3rd and long situations we had stopped those first downs, but, by the second half that was no more.
The defense looked more than game to play, and played well enough to win the game, too bad the offense was really not able to do the same. Though I will say our run o-line is actually pretty decent, our pass o-line is atrocious. Also, Stanford's secondary was pretty good, though they were getting helped massively on a lot of pass interference no calls.
