When David Braun was elevated to become Northwestern’s interim head football coach on July 13, most fans figured that 2023 would be a trial run ending with a foregone result: that the Wildcats would hire an outside voice to rebuild for 2024 and beyond. As it turns out, the guy they promoted wasn’t too shabby himself, especially for someone who had literally never been a head coach at any level.
A little over four months later, NU sits at 5-5 and 3-4 in the Big Ten, with better records in both departments than the last two years combined.