The month of October will be a "gauntlet" for Northwestern. See what the Wildcats had to say about it during Big Ten Media Days.
The month of October hasn't been kind to Pat Fitzgerald's Wildcats.
Since 2011, Northwestern football has a 6-13 record in October, with its two October losses last year to Michigan and Iowa ending at a combined 78-10 score.
And this year, the road to an improvement in the month travels through Iowa City, East Lansing and Columbus, home to three teams at least as daunting as last year's debacles. The Wildcats will take on three top 10 teams from the Associated Press' final poll last season in Iowa, Michigan State and Ohio State, with the homecoming game against Indiana sandwiched in between on October 22.