08-30-2016, 03:07 PM
A three teams did manage to limit his production pretty well (defined as <100 yards because why not?), but there's some explanation for each:
1) Against Northwestern and UCF the coaches didn't really know what they had, the main problem @NWU was that McCaffrey should've ran as many times as Hogan passed, not really sure why UCF was his worst game of the year (seriously! lowest yardage and YPC against the 0-12 team) but I don't think anyone would claim UCF had serious success against us.
2) ND has good players and sold out to stop him, resulting in Hogan's monster game.
If you buy this at all, explanation #1 is irrelevant. So the question is does KSU have the players and coaching to execute on ND's strategy? Coaching, probably, players? Seems unlikely to me (especially given that Iowa and especially USC couldn't stop him) but we're only 74 hours from finding out.
1) Against Northwestern and UCF the coaches didn't really know what they had, the main problem @NWU was that McCaffrey should've ran as many times as Hogan passed, not really sure why UCF was his worst game of the year (seriously! lowest yardage and YPC against the 0-12 team) but I don't think anyone would claim UCF had serious success against us.
2) ND has good players and sold out to stop him, resulting in Hogan's monster game.
If you buy this at all, explanation #1 is irrelevant. So the question is does KSU have the players and coaching to execute on ND's strategy? Coaching, probably, players? Seems unlikely to me (especially given that Iowa and especially USC couldn't stop him) but we're only 74 hours from finding out.