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.