If the boundry corner hadn't helped deep Golden Tate would have had a TD. He was coming across the face of the Safety who, I'm guessing, misplayed it. The corner dropped into the back corner to cover Golden (where Clausen was looking initially. Great recognition by Clausen to check down.

the best angle is from the pressbox, as always.

Tough to call out the coverage. At the snap it looks like Cover 2, and it may have been, but both corners bailed fairly deep. However, sometimes Cornerbacks are taught to go ahead and run underneath any vertical routes by the #1 receiver if no one else threatens the flat.

Of course, in this case, Allen ends up getting to the flat very late, which would be a bitch of a read for a corner.

(pointed out by Spesh). This is our first play from scrimmage in the '08 Purdue game.

Top of the screen looks like the mesh combo again, but things get fouled up.

I remember being really impressed with that play because it showed a lot of good things about the talent and abilities of the kids on the team, so when I saw it was also an audible, I sort of took note mentally.

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Kamara and Tate cross on the left side, with Tate coming in and Kamara going out. Lots of Cardinal defenders over there, so Clausen finally comes back to Allen.

Where all the WRs drive off the underneath cover and then a running back ran a little crossing route like that one. He was wide open.

I don't think it's an audible. Really all he says is "Watch 50" which has to do with the Mike, I believe. I don't think "Omaha" has anything to do with changing plays or calling audibles. It has to do with something else.

The defense play looks designed to have the OLB follow the inside route, which he does.

The CB guarding the ND sideline WR dumps him off to the OLB once he goes inside and then this CB goes to the deep man. My guess is that this CB was the "curls to flats" defender and wasn't paying attention when Allen came outside.

It also looked like an audible to me.