When people say college football is predictable they mean that Alabama and Ohio State are in the playoffs every year and the same half dozen programs are in position to win the big championship that ESPN cares about but they do not account for a scandal-plagued Northwestern team going up to Camp Randall against a Wisconsin team with one of the flashiest coaching hires of the offseason and absolutely beating their ass.
I don't recall any Northwestern team ever doing that up there. Usually if Northwestern beats Wisconsin it is because the referees have nullified several Wisconsin touchdowns while the student section rains snowballs on the field in disgust or because Wisconsin's coaches have seen their metric ton offensive line wipe the Wildcats across the field like a five-man squeegee but then let their quarterback who has been the same guy for 35 consecutive years throw a single pass that is so bad it causes them to instantly lose the game.