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What a difference a year makes!

Minnesota was definitely a turning point but so was Maryland where we were a big underdog, playing our backup QB, and came back with the W that started our late season surge.
You're right. In fact, before I wrote about Minnesota I was sure that Maryland was the game I was thinking of and I went back to the schedule to look - Maryland was much later than I remembered. Oh well, both games were huge.

Down & Distance!

I rode my bike past the lakefront stadium this afternoon. They were testing the scoreboards. I'm happy to report that, unlike last week, the down & distance were being displayed on the ribbon boards above the south stands and at the base of the north stands. The main video boards showed only the score (it's currently Duke 0, Northwestern 0), along with a giant picture of Luke Donald -- special surprise guest?

Cats ranked 16th

Only 16th? I would expect a higher ranking for any university that "owns and controls" the Sun, or at least the Sun's light.

New policy: "The University owns and controls the lighting in and on its buildings and properties. Only authorized University officials are permitted to alter or project light onto University buildings or properties. Requests to alter or project lighting will not be considered."

Don't accidentally shine your headlights on a building while you leave a night game.

*twits*

The Four Fs, maybe five, that drive new Northwestern AD Mark Jackson

I bet Rivals got threatened with lawsuits or something.

As long as shakes, wrassler Bob, @IGNORE2 and MrWickerPark are on their best behavior, and the rest of us are adults, then the RB will be OK
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What a difference a year makes!

Agree. Last year at this time it felt like we were losing recruits - and fans - left and right, had no idea if Braun was capable at all, and worrying that there would be no place to play. I'm sure there were posts predicting NU wouldn't have enough players in 2024 after the mass exodus due to three terrible years in a row and the firing of a beloved coach. If NU hadn't come back against Minnesota in Week 4 and turned its season around, who knows where we'd be right now.
Minnesota was definitely a turning point but so was Maryland where we were a big underdog, playing our backup QB, and came back with the W that started our late season surge.

Cats ranked 16th

Well, it's all about the starting point, and I guess UCLA started out with the more populous parts of L.A. (and picked up all of Hawaii last weekend), whereas USC has a tinier land mass but still has over 4,000,000 in population. NU is closer to 10,000,000 though already. Chicago's Big Ten team!

Here it is, if you want to complain, argue, or enjoy.
It looks like UCLA got LA County and USC got Orange and Ventura, which makes sense, I guess.

Looking forward to annexing western Washington in a couple of weeks.

What a difference a year makes!

Looking back at that time when the future competitiveness, and even the future existence, of our football program was under a very real extensional threat, this is a lot better

Agree. Last year at this time it felt like we were losing recruits - and fans - left and right, had no idea if Braun was capable at all, and worrying that there would be no place to play. I'm sure there were posts predicting NU wouldn't have enough players in 2024 after the mass exodus due to three terrible years in a row and the firing of a beloved coach. If NU hadn't come back against Minnesota in Week 4 and turned its season around, who knows where we'd be right now.

Cats ranked 16th

Doesn't UCLA have to split the LA SMSA with the school from Exposition Park?

Well, it's all about the starting point, and I guess UCLA started out with the more populous parts of L.A. (and picked up all of Hawaii last weekend), whereas USC has a tinier land mass but still has over 4,000,000 in population. NU is closer to 10,000,000 though already. Chicago's Big Ten team!

Here it is, if you want to complain, argue, or enjoy.
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