With the monkey off its back…a murky quarterback situation…hoping to build momentum in continental contests — all of these things describe where Northwestern Football sits on this Week Three Wednesday. Quite the trio of plotlines, isn’t it?
693 days stood between the ‘Cats’ Saturday win against UTEP and their last victory on American soil: on Oct. 16, 2021. You would’ve thought that, at the very least, Northwestern had secured a bowl game appearance the way players and coaches described their shared ecstasy for finally notching a home win. Now, the stopwatch resets to zero, and the program has been liberated from the manacles of Twitter (now known as X) trolls and embarrassing television graphics.