Three matchups to watch against Rutgers

It’s been just over a calendar year since the last time Northwestern won a football game. It’s been even longer than that since they won a game on American soil. But the ‘Cats will take the field with a chance to break the losing streak this Sunday at Rutgers in the first game of the 2023 season.

The glass-half-full attitude? New quarterback Ben Bryant offers a glimmer of hope for Northwestern fans, potentially giving interim head coach David Braun a passer who can actually sling it at a high level. Nobody’s certain of anything, but Bryant should at least be better than Ryan Hilinski or Brendan Sullivan were last year. He hasn’t officially been announced as the starter, but it would be a…