Badgers sack their Air Raid OC today. Always seemed like an odd fit in MadTown.

Somewhat in the topic of alumni supporting the FB team and buying season tickets, I was shocked to see this photo from the combined “5 and 10” year increment classes: $338 million! Does this include some massive Ryan-like family donation? Last year I participated in the same “big check” presentation and the total for the same number of classes - and there were actually more individual donors - was about $25 million.

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Northwestern offered PWO spots to Ohio linebackers Lincoln Creager and Mikey Young. I interviewed both to see what they had to say about their offers, their overall recruitment and more.

2025 Rockford (Mich.) TE Blake Linsley was one of Northwestern's visitors of Saturday's game against Ohio State at Wrigley Field.

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Is there anything dumber than playing the Homecoming game a) at Wrigley, b) against dOSU, and c) in mid-November???

Presumably they scheduled it there given the uncertainty of where the earlier games would be played. But it would have been perfect to have Homecoming 2024 on campus, against Wisconsin, in sunny, warm weather. I hope the new AD will make a better choice in 2025.

Was this pass interference or good defense by the USC secondary?

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Regardless of today’s outcome, we’ve found our QB. Lausch plays with passion. Kid has the “it factor”…just like Stacey Fitz said. Need to get him some more weapons and an average OL. Excited to watch him perform/develop over the next 2.5 seasons.

Lots of discussion on NU turnout (or lack thereof) yesterday so thought I'd throw out a poll.

Plane headed to Detroit.....self explanatory....



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Wondering

He was a 4 star recruit yet I’ve never seen him play.

Anyone know the story?

Yeah there was a game today (and I watched the whole thing), but the whole time, I was thinking more about whether we'd be able to find a win against Michigan or Illinois.

Ohio State is a loaded team and their real test (and Indiana's) is next week.

For us, it's whether we can top either of Michigan or Illinois in the next 2 weeks.

I think we have a decent shot at winning 1 of the 2 (something like 30-40% chance of grabbing 1 win).

All times CENTRAL, and all games played on Saturday, November 2. All games nationally televised unless otherwise indicated. Rankings come from the AP poll.

First, the NU game:

Northwestern @ Purdue
11:00 AM, BTN
PxP: Jason Ross Jr.
Color: Anthony Herron

And the rest:

#4 Ohio State @ #3 Penn State (ESPN College GameDay and FOX Big Noon Kickoff)
11:00 AM, FOX
PxP: Gus Johnson
Color: Joel Klatt

Minnesota @ #24 Illinois
11:00 AM, FS1
PxP: Tim Brando
Color: Devin Gardner

#1 Oregon @ Michigan
2:30 PM, CBS
PxP: Brad Nessler
Color: Gary Danielson

UCLA @ Nebraska
2:30 PM, BTN
PxP: Guy Haberman
Color: Yogi Roth

#13 Indiana @ Michigan State
2:30 PM, Peacock (streaming only)
PxP: Paul Burmeister
Color: Colt McCoy

Wisconsin @ Iowa
6:30 PM, NBC
PxP: Noah Eagle
Color: Todd Blackledge

USC @ Washington
6:30 PM, BTN
PxP: Jeff Levering
Color: Jake Butt

Maryland and Rutgers are off this week.

Happy Homecoming! Northwestern (4-5, 2-4 Big Ten) hosts No. 2 Ohio State (8-1, 5-1 Big Ten) this morning at Wrigley Field, set for an 11 am kick. The game will air on BTN.

Gameplan was great coming out, Lausch executing save for the fumble. Then self-inflicted problems opened the floodgates.

Eli Bickel out of North Branch, MI picks up an offer today at Wrigley. Has offers from Michigan State and Cincy.

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Fire the groundskeeper.

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Get ready for the red invasion at wrigley.

I don’t expect NU to match up with OSU RBs and S making millions of dollars. But they fail with two basic snaps back to back? That’s tough to swallow.

Check out @lou v's column from Northwestern's 31-7 loss to Ohio State.

I was thinking about this today when someone mentioned Roper at the end of the ND bench, but are there any transfers who have gotten better after leaving NU? Sure, some have gone to better team situations, like going to North Carolina or Duke (though you can argue that NU did better in those years than UNC or Duke did after Nance/Young left), but did any become better? I mentioned on another thread that I hate that other schools get the best years of a player that NU develops, but then I couldn't think of any good examples. We really do a good job of holding onto our stars and rarely have to have the pain of watching them excel elsewhere.

Going back to the 1990s, we had Geno Carlisle and Rex Walters, but am I forgetting anyone since then? Has there been a player this century who did so well at his new school that we really really wished he were still in purple?

Umm, something buckeyes
Yada yada Wrigley Field
Anyhoo Go Cats