One of the surprising storylines of this young football season has been the undefeated start of the Big Ten’s Northwestern Wildcats. The Wildcats, coached by Pat Fitzgerald in his tenth season at the helm, are 3-0. And while many teams are sitting at 3-0 right now, Fitzgerald’s Cats have managed to do it with two wins as an underdog, first at home against a heavily favored Stanford team in Evanston and again as a 3.5-point dog at Duke.
Prognosticators (namely, myself) looked at the 2015 Northwestern team and saw two things. First: a dearth of talent on offense.