[Farm93]

But they wanted to play with more DBs than just their experienced crew, and therefore they had some really inexperienced players out there.  Then during the game the D suffered a few injuries, and they had other places with limited game experience.

In theory, Wazzu should have been able to exploit the inexperienced and/or the two deeps serving as mid game replacements, but it just didn't happen.

Given all of the events over the past month it would have been understandable if Minnesota got crushed by 2 or 3 TDs, but instead Wazzu didn't even get a TD until the last minute of the game.  Not sure if it was Minnesota coaching, BigTen strength, Wazzu weakness or Pac-12 weakness, but it was not a great start for the Pac-12 given that Wazzu was a big favorite.

[Farm93]

But they wanted to play with more DBs than just their experienced crew, and therefore they had some really inexperienced players out there.  Then during the game the D suffered a few injuries, and they had other places with limited game experience.

In theory, Wazzu should have been able to exploit the inexperienced and/or the two deeps serving as mid game replacements, but it just didn't happen.

Given all of the events over the past month it would have been understandable if Minnesota got crushed by 2 or 3 TDs, but instead Wazzu didn't even get a TD until the last minute of the game.  Not sure if it was Minnesota coaching, BigTen strength, Wazzu weakness or Pac-12 weakness, but it was not a great start for the Pac-12 given that Wazzu was a big favorite.