Every Thursday 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.
First up for Northwestern are the Western Michigan Broncos of the MAC. Coach P.J. Fleck’s squad went 8-5 last season, with two of those losses coming against top-5 teams, and returns a lot of talent on both sides of the ball.