The first college football Saturday of 2015 has come. And it has gone. And oh, what a day it was for Northwestern. It took the Wildcats all of three hours to make us look stupid, and to render at least some preseason doubt foolish.
As is always the case on the Sunday of that first weekend, the speculation is now behind us. The reaction has begun.
But the start of football does not mean the end of forward-looking statements, nor the end of the discussion of season expectations. In fact, Northwestern's win over Stanford makes that discussion just as, if not more, pertinent.