I usually complain about getting passed over but I noticed this morning a ton of NU official Twitter feeds were following the old outback bowl and I was like cool … then I saw the likely opponent - no 13 LSU - have fun Badgers

RB Dashun Reeder and DE Troy Regovich secured state titles last week. Check out the final Recruit Roundup of the season to see how each of them did in their championship games.

RB Dashun Reeder and DE Troy Regovich secured state titles last week. Check out the final Recruit Roundup of the season to see how each of them did in their championship games.

With the demise of the Pac next year and the CFB seedings (No Mich-Wash matchup), we are left with only memories of the B1G-Pac Rose Bowl game tradition. One more loss in the tides of change.

Not sure they miss Fitz all too much

calling Braun the GOAT

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With Reliaquest Bowl back in play we SHOULD be the next team (after MI, OSU, PSU and Iowa) and logic would state that would send us to Reliaquest (former Outback).

But of course both overall and head to head records don't matter and instead they will send a stink Wisconsin team we beat to get pummeled by LSU.

While 247 in its final bowl projection postings from early this Sunday morning have Northwestern headed to Phoenix, against Kansas, ESPN is projecting Northwestern headed to The Music City Bowl on December 30th as a consequence of a projected opening up of the ReliaQuest Bowl to the Big Ten as a consequence of the Orange no longer having a Big Ten Team due to Georgia getting that slot to play against Louisville. Per ESPN's projections Ohio State is going to the Cotton and Penn State to the Peach for the respective New Years Six Games. (It goes without saying that Michigan is in the playoffs.)

If ESPN is correct, their projected opponent for the Wildcats is Auburn.

The Las Vegas Bowl still remains viable for Northwestern but it has lost favor from some of those making projections. While Utah keeps getting mentioned as the opposing team in the Las Vegas Bowl, USC is also getting some mention. If in fact Las Vegas wants to avoid a rematch of the Holiday Bowl NU-Utah game they would appear to have the option of matching Northwestern with USC. (Then we could talk about a Rematch of the Rose Bowl game.)

In any event the selection committee met last night and into this Sunday morning so at this point it is possible that all is inked and it will just be a matter of opening the envelopes.

Just focusing on likely opponents, curious as to what the sentiment here is to which of the following would be the best match-up for us?

Play against Auburn (in Nashville)
Play against Utah (in Las Vegas)
Play against USC (in Las Vegas)
Play against Kansas (in Phoenix)

Here is a link:

ESPN has NU to Nashville

Trev is in for the Jets.

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2024 LB Matthew Smith was one of the visitors for Northwestern's game against Penn State last Saturday, and he went back to North Carolina with an unexpected offer. @lou v talked to him about his visit, the offer and the future of his recruitment.

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Northwestern dropped its first game of the season to Mississippi State, 66-57. Here are our takeaways from the game with some brief postgame comments from Chris Collins.

13 dream lives on!

Here are our takeaways from David Braun's press conference today on the Las Vegas Bowl as well as Northwestern's recruiting and hiring outlooks.

Sure doesn't seem like someone on their way out the door.....

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Here are our takeaways from David Braun's press conference today on the Las Vegas Bowl as well as Northwestern's recruiting and hiring outlooks.

Was that the most exciting NU men's hoops game ever or was it only the second most exciting?

A real poser! Think carefully!

Now that we again have something to look forward to on the first Sunday in December, I thought I'd post a supplemental edition of the weekly prediction thread. Please post your expected bowl invitation, by venue and opponent.

My guess:

Las Vegas Bowl v. Utah, a rematch of the 2018 Holiday Bowl.

Utah's hometown paper seems to agree, giving the Cats a 2:1 chance of facing the Utes:

"Maryland or Northwestern or Northwestern are the most likely opponents for Utah should the Utes be selected for the Las Vegas Bowl."

MSN

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A friend said he saw a group of three. Heck of a game to have them at, Anybody know who they were?

He was a big part of the show last night at welsh Ryan - including the line - paying full credit to Barnett - that it’s time to take the purple to the college football playoff.

I got 10 seconds with him and was able to thank him for the season and congratulate him. And then NU kicked Purdue’s whiny asses.

And if so, how would you feel about it? NFM.

SEC worst nightmare

Michigan and Washington clearly in
Have to take FSU as undefeated conference champ

Georgia out as they didn’t win SEC - arguably dOSU has better resume or at least best loss.

Alabama SEC champ but they lost to B1G12 Champ Texas who barely lost on the road to OU. Bama needed a miracle to beat 6 win Auburn.

Can’t see how they put Bama in over the Horns if things are fair.

SEC might be on the outside looking in BWAHAHAHA.

The broadcasters and postgame commentators cited the Cats’ 17-3 advantage in turnovers to explain how the Cats won the game against Purdue. As amazing as it was to only have 3 turnovers (with Buie handling the ball flawlessly), if I read the play by play correctly, of the 3 turnovers they committed, two were offensive fouls, one on Barnhizer and one on Berry, and the only loss of the ball on the floor was a pass that Berry made that the Boilers jumped the passing lane with 12:17 to go in the first half. This team truly seems to be the good hands people!
I would add as a Cats’ fan that I thought both offensive foul calls were a little questionable, though consistent with how the officials called the game.