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Where are We Wednesday, Week 5: This could get ugly or it could get better

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A new feature to our gameweek schedule this season is Where Are We Wednesday, a mid-week evaluation of where the team currently sits in the big picture of things, whether that be the Big Ten West, the Big Ten or even the nation. As Northwestern grinds through a 12-game regular season, that location changes every week based on what both the team and the teams around them do. Here’s the Week 5 edition.

Northwestern has reached a critical juncture in the 2016 season.

This particular juncture isn’t one that the team envisioned finding itself in with one third of the campaign gone.