Every week during football season, we'll be presenting reasons why Northwestern will or won't come away from its Saturday game victorious. It's not so much an argument for or against either result as it is envisioning the scenarios in which the Wildcats come away from the game with a win or a loss.
This week, Northwestern takes the field against a Nevada team that has a coach and a whole lot of question marks. The Wolf Pack went 5-7 last season, but ranked 124th (out of 128) in the country in S&P+. Pat Fitzgerald knows his team has to get off to fast start this season after the debacle out of the gate in 2016, and, on paper, it looks like the Wildcats should have a good opportunity to get started on the right foot against Nevada.