Before the season, nearly all of our staffers made their prediction for how the season would go. Most of us predicted another year with a winning record, and several of us had the Wildcats contending for the Big Ten West.
But then Northwestern opened the season with two deflating losses. It’s gotten better since, with wins over academic rival Duke and actual football rival Iowa, but to say the Wildcats’ 2-3 record is anything near what we expected would be simply false. Having said that, we have hit the bye week and can now readjust our expectations for the year.