He won a Rose Bowl at USC, has led some great offenses, and his Georgia Southern teams have been competitive (see current Wisconsin game)

Here are our takeaways from David Braun's press conference this morning.

Surprised by that. I was wondering if he was done for the season after what looked like a bad leg injury last week.

Only player listed as "out" is J. Fitz.

Why are posts regarding Carl the Traitor keep being deleted?

Are we censoring our board to oblivion now?

There was no racist, sexist, woke agendas being posted as far as I could tell.

Are there any Northwestern bars in Chicago where people watch games?

Thanks.

I talked with Jack Lausch this morning after practice, check out my profile on his path to Northwestern, his game against UTEP and the rest of this season.

I cannot find the Duke game on Comcast in Evanston. Is it an ACC ESPN game requiring a subsription?

So heading into Week 3, there is basis for some optimism among Cats fans after an explosive 2nd Half against UTEP. UTEP is not top competition, but performing at the level one would expect from a Power 5 school in a non-conference game is a significant step forward from last season.

The test coming up this week is daunting. Duke has had NU's number for years, in good years and in bad. Duke is riding a #21 ranking and is heavily favored at home with a very warm forecast for Durham.

Payback is overdue but will be a tall order. I will pick the Cats and the upset, but it is more hope than realism.

Adlai Stevenson 24
Richard Nixon 21

It's sort of like a plateau.

Some of the most creative 1Q play calling for Vs. They lead terps 14-0 and were 20pt dogs

Delayed at airport... decided to watch some old NU highlights. Pinstripe Bowl... down 3-0 and the Pitt FB stumbles on his way into the endzone. Next play A Walk stones James Conner. Then on the next series, The Ball Carrier ripped of a long run to change fields. He was so fluid and never got hit square. Top 5 all-time favorite Cats.

Before the Duke game becomes the object of post mortems, I wanted to just give a shout out to everyone involved in Himon’s long TD reception last Saturday. The call put the ball into an area UTEP had ceded, as they were in a 3rd and long 3-3-5 defense. Hilinski’s timing was excellent, leaving every defender with at least one blocker. The blocks were executed without penalty, and Himon read the blocks to get his path to the end zone. The old cliche is that every play is designed to score a TD if everyone does what they are supposed to. In this case everyone did.
This highlight compilation has both the sideline and end zone views starting at 14:52. I think watching the 2 views really demonstrates how perfect the execution was on this play.

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optimistic thinking I know, Riley Leonard is the next coming of Daniel Jones and is going to give us fits, but a guy can hope.

If we had five OL like this Rhino, we’d stampede the entire B1G.

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I thought it would be interesting to see how the new BIG stacked up on the US News rankings of schools:
1. NU
2. UCLA
3. USC (tie)
3. Michigan (tie)
5. Wisconsin
6. Illinois
7. Ohio St.
8. Purdue
9. Washington
10. Rutgers
11. Maryland
12. Minnesota
13. Indiana
14. Michigan St. (tie)
14. Penn St. (tie)
16. Iowa
17. Oregon
18. Nebraska

Fixed adding Nebraska and Iowa.

Don’t know what to say
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Northwestern is on the road this week to face their toughest test of the season: No. 21 Duke. The Wildcats have lost four straight in the series with the Blue Devils and aim to pull off the upset to snap two streaks in two weeks. Here are our predictions for this Saturday's game.

Go Cats!

Skoronski has stepped right in and was expected to start at LG. (I didn’t confirm.)

Expect a lot of action from Hull today, but he did not start for the Colts. Mitchell not listed among the inactives for CLE. I don’t know his role.

Tomi is inactive. Colts list him at DT, and it was a pretty quiet camp for him.

This comprehensive SI story puts the coat at around $165 million.

Are there any NU segments on BTN shows that folks recommend? And, are there clips available on YouTube? Would be great if I didn’t have to waste DVR space recording the entirety of the nightly shows hoping for a morsel of coverage.

Apparently emboldened by our win against UTEP, three Mojo Moose just made their appearance in my front yard moments ago:

Can’t get enough of this. Enjoy.

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