It’s bad. It’s so, so bad.
Every Sunday after a Northwestern win (assuming one is coming) or loss, we'll be handing out player grades as a way to analyze the Wildcats' performance from an individual perspective. Rather than rush out the grades on Saturday, we'll sleep on them, and wake up Sunday ready to accurately evaluate NU's players, coaches and opponents.
The end of days is nearing. Saturday, Northwestern was thoroughly outplayed and narrowly defeated by the Illinois State Redbirds (an FCS squad, need I remind you) at home. The grades below reflect the catastrophic nature of this loss:
Overall Grade: D-
This could very easily be an F, given the nature of their opponent, but I’ll give the Wildcats a D- here by virtue of the fact that they actually did get on the scoreboard in this one.