If you're into stats (DomerMQ anyone?), then the answer might be yes. With a record low number of arrests at the Stanford game, on the heels of a ton of arrests previous weeks along with the big house party bust-up fiasco, it at least SEEMS as if there's been a message handed down from the big boys.
I guess we'll see if this restraint continues, or if it's just a temporary thing to try to dampen the internet rage going on about mistreatment, abuse and gestapo tactics by cops at ND games.
Personally, I saw one security guard all day Saturday, despite drinking non-stop from 8:30am to game time, and that guard was extremely nice. And the boozing remained fun.
So, we'll see...