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Minnesota-Northwestern Preview Capsule

Oct 1, 2015 at 1:49p ET

Oct 1, 2015 at 1:49p ET

Minnesota (3-1, 0-0 Big Ten) at No. 16 Northwestern (4-0, 0-0), 12:01 p.m. (Big Ten Network)

Line: Northwestern by 4.

Series Record: Minnesota leads 52-33-5.

WHAT'S AT STAKE

At 4-0 for the second time in three years, Northwestern hopes to keep rolling in conference play. That did not happen in 2013, when the Wildcats blew a 10-point lead to Ohio State in the third quarter of the Big Ten opener and wound up dropping seven in a row.