We would be an 8 win team with a negative point differential. That's gotta be extremely rare, at least at P5. Our 2015 team won 10 with a barely positive differential.

I could see like a MAC team absorbing 3 non con beatings then winning 8 conf games.

Just a statistical oddity

A lot of us do this for the CAT's games, but some still don't bother.

Once you do it though you're not likely to ever go back to the TV announcers again. The difference is like night and day.

It's really pretty simple and takes only minute to do. Here's how:

I haven’t followed the Game Thread for years; was wondering if it is possible to pull out all of @TheC comments and create his own thread? I’m guessing he was close to max meltdown mode today. Would be great to see. Thx

Now that we’re not blinded by history and good vibes and ‘Go Cats’ and a 25-year relationship and a name in the rafters, geez, Fitz had built a program that had turned to complete garbage.

Awful line play. Four senior starters who couldn’t protect another transfer quarterback because the program can never get any out of high school. A DLine of castoffs and walkons — high effort but limited. Talented back seven defensively, but it doesn’t matter because the game is won on the line. And an offense totally devoid of playmakers — our great hope is a dude who managed 400 scrimmage yards in three seasons at Michigan.

The staff has an unaccountable OC and an unaccountable OLine coach and those playmakers are so weak because of a decade of an unaccountable WR coach.

Pat Fitzgerald built a program to respectability on Mike Hankwitz’s broad shoulders, and he lucked out with Thorson and JJTBC.

Watching this club will subject us all only to misery.

We’re gonna party like it’s 1999 (3-8). Nah, 1989 (0-11)? Actually, probably 1979 (1-10).

Gross.

LOVE IT!
We got our Hat back!
Go Cats!!

NU played a game where both teams scored 40+ points and the final margin was 7 points or fewer:

11/15/2014 NU 43 - ND 40 (OT)
9/1/2012 NU 42 - Syracuse 41
10/13/2007 NU 49 - Minnesota 48 (2OT)
10/6/2007 NU 48 - MSU 41 (OT)
10/8/2005 NU 51 - Wisconsin 48

This seems like a solid hire for MSU.

Northwestern (6-5, 4-4 Big Ten) hits the road to play at Illinois (5-6, 3-5 Big Ten) in the battle for the Hat at 2:30 p.m. The game will air on BTN.

Illinois leads the Land of Lincoln series 57-54-5 but, while Northwestern has lost the last two by wide margins, the Wildcats have won seven of the last 10.

NU has already secured their bowl eligibility, for Illinois this is win or go home. Stadium clock projects a 2:45 pm kick

Check out @lou v’s question and answer article with Richie Schnyderite of TheKnightReport.com ahead of the Rutgers game this Sunday.

The Cats locked up bowl eligibility with the bendiest of bend-don't-break defenses last week and an offense that came through to beat the Boilers.

This week, NU faces in-state rival Illinois with its best chance in three years to return the Land of Lincoln trophy to its home in Evanston. Illinois is also still playing for bowl eligibility, so there should be no lack of motivation on either side of the ball.

NU's defense should keep the score low, but the offense has been showing enough spark, particularly with the return of QB Ben Bryant in the last two weeks, to finish ahead of the Illini.

NU 24
UI 17

Here are @mshelton33's takeaways after the shootout in Champaign.

Just awful.
Both teams throw picks in a tie game inside of two minutes.

Matt Ruhle is Scott Frost, but with no previous ties to the program.

I don’t see this new format lasting all that long for this reason. Rematches in these kind of games absolutely suck.

Here are @mshelton33's takeaways after the shootout in Champaign.

We finished 3rd/7 in the all time standings. Notwithstanding the last 2 years we did quite well in the division.

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They started 2-4, then covered six straight times.

Here's my recap.

We got our 🎩 back!
Go Cats!!

Here's my game recap:

I must say, the tilt in Ann Arbor has been very well-played by both teams.

So sad to see Zinter go down with a very serious leg injury. He's a good NFL prospect.

What a season! Bring on the … GUARANTEED RATE BOWL.

Since the UTEP game, the only thing the Lausch package has accomplished is making me scream at the TV and in so doing, frighten my dog. In that span, Lausch has rushed 12 times for 18 yards, completed 1 pass for 4 yards while being sacked once. Since he has only entered the game in the red zone, the Cats have basically wasted 14 snaps from scoring position by trotting him out. Enough already?

Attending the Illinois HS state championships today (my daughter is on the dance team) to hopefully watch Cary-Grove beat East St Louis. Currently watching Nazereth put a beat down Joliet Catholic. Any Cat recruits playing today in any of the games?

This ISU stadium is small but quite nice. Beautiful day for football!

Can’t wait for us to break ground on the new stadium. It’s going to be incredible.

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