Any report on his leg injury. He definitely seemed to be in some discomfort.

Your team has heart and wanted to win!

Congrats and best of luck the rest of the way!

One thing that struck me about last night’s game was how wide open receivers seemed to get on almost every passing play. Early on, much like the earlier games in the season, Bryant missed some open receivers downfield. Last night, to my eyes, the Minnesota DC had his safeties favoring Johnson and Henning until late in the 4th, when he shifted to a zone that paid attention to Kirtz. Kirtz got single coverage most of the night: you saw the result. On the last drive and in OT, they added safety help on Kirtz and the result was Henning and the tight ends getting open areas to work on. The long and short of it is that the Cats have 3 WR’s who have the ability to get separation against single coverage or find an open area in a cheating zone, as well as two tight ends that can catch the ball if they are ignored. While a championship level team might have the D backs to deal with that ( Duke did a good job, and I suspect PSU and maybe Iowa will, too) the set of receivers should be able to overmatch the secondaries of almost every other team remaining on the schedule. Bryant needs a little protection, which he did not get against Rutgers, but if he gets it, I think the Cats will score a fair number of points with the exceptions of PSU and Iowa.

It has been a long time the Cats have had a complete set of receivers that could pressure a defensive backfield. In earlier times, when teams ran 2 WR steps, Bates, Musso and Drexler were pretty good together, but in my memory 1971 (Pearson, Lash and Craig) was the last time he Cats had the receivers that actually gave them an advantage against most of their competition.

Hey guys! Rich Schnyderite here, publisher of Happy Valley Insider aka the Penn State-Rivals site. Just wanted to drop by and post our video from PSU Football HC James Franklin's press conference today.

There is only a couple of Northwestern questions / answers in there, so ENJOY!


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Hey guys! Rich Schnyderite here, publisher of Happy Valley Insider aka the Penn State-Rivals site. Just wanted to drop by and post our video from PSU Football HC James Franklin's press conference today.

There is only a couple of Northwestern questions / answers in there, so ENJOY!


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Nice to see Joe addressing the team. Talk about working through adversity. Kudos to all those baseball players that stuck it out through the Foster mess.

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Gabe Sularski, a Top 50 guard in the Class of 2026, took an unofficial visit to Northwestern last weekend. @lou v has the story on his visit and what he thought of NU.

Worth a read.

Shows only Tyus as Questionable.

Not entirely sure how to interpret…does not listing Lawson and Covey mean they are available or out for the year?? 🤔

Elmhurst (Ill.) York sophomore DE Joseph Reiff talks about his recent visits to Northwestern and Iowa with Edgy Tim. The story doesn't get into it, but Reiff's father was DL Joe Reiff, good ol' No. 94, who was Fitz's teammate on the 1995 Rose Bowl team. (Edgy has the wrong teaser text on the story, too, but I'm unable to change that.)

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Frankly, I thought it would be more, but I'm still taking the 'Cats and the points. In my opinion, there's something to this idea of playing more aggressively at the edge of the penalty hammer, rather than playing to avoid penalties. Yes guys like Tiernan got caught holding a few time, but the refs probably missed a few as well, and the 'Cats won!

Due to my daughter's cross country schedule this coming weekend, I will not be able to make it to the PSU game. I have 3 tickets, Section 130, Row 17. Seatbacks included.
Message me with an offer if interested. Would prefer they go to a purple clad fan, but if I don't get any offers by Wed, I will list them on SeatGeek.
Go Cats!

Four-star 2026 shooting guard Gabe Sularski is visiting Northwestern this weekend. He's out of Benet Academy (the alma mater of Dave Sobolewski) and the Nike Meanstreets EYBL club. He's making the rounds to several Big Ten schools this fall. He was at Illinois last weekend, and he's going to Purdue on Sept. 30, Indiana on Oct. 21 and Michigan on Nov. 4.

Northwestern hasn't offered him yet -- he's just a sophomore -- but I expect them to at some point.

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(BTW, If you're curious about football visitors this weekend...well, so am I. I know that they are hosting prospects, but the program is on lockdown right now. None of my sources will provide any names anymore. We'll just have to watch Twitter, I guess.)

Obviously opinions may be biased on the outcome of the OT, but what did you all think at the time when we went for the tie at the end of regulation? I was a bit disappointed for the following reasons:

- we were red hot after scoring 3 TDs and had all the monentum
- they couldn’t really stop us at that point
- didn’t really want to put their O back on the field
- May have to rely on our FG kicker in OT
- I know home teams usually favor taking it to OT but there was certainly no home field noise advantage, loud end zone to choose etc. and we are not a deep team so going far into OT was a gamble

Braun must have just had great confidence in both sides of the ball red zone offense and defense, as well as confidence that Fleck would not take the chances needed to win the game! Sure enough he outcoached Fleck last night. I had never seen Fleck look like he did when Minny MADE the FG in 1OT, he looked like he knew he lost the game already.

David Braun held his fifth press conference of the season with Penn State on the horizon this Saturday. Here are our takeaways from what he had to say.

I ate crow. Left at halftime. Anyone admit so too?

Turk on Facebook perhaps?

I know its Minnesota, but this might be the best comeback we’ve had since the Holiday Bowl.

(Actually, that was a 17 point hole they overcame. But it was a bowl game. So I would give that top marks).

These kids needed this. And they deserve it.

Congrats to the players and staff for a great win.

Molly will run it back for year 6. Looking to defend their title!

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Whoops from the Chicago Tribune...

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How they were at this game..

David Braun held his fifth press conference of the season with Penn State on the horizon this Saturday. Here are our takeaways from what he had to say.