The fast start the Northwestern State football team experienced in their season opener flipped sides in Week 2.
The Demons’ first trip to face a Big Ten opponent saw homestanding Minnesota score on the first play of scrimmage and use that momentum to deliver a 66-0 victory inside Huntington Bank Stadium in a game that ended with 6:15 remaining because of a combination of a looming weather delay and Northwestern’s return trip to Natchitoches.
“The score is what it is,” secondyear head coach Blaine McCorkle said. “You play these games, and sometimes these things get sideways in a hurry, but we didn’t do anything to help ourselves. Of all the things you take away from the day, 28 points in the first half came directly from turnovers. Then we have a really selfish penalty that hurt us in the red zone and put them in scoring position.