Northwestern Wins the West
November 10th, 2018 at 7:42 PM ^
With piss producers.
November 10th, 2018 at 7:33 PM ^
Go Cats! Until Indy.
November 10th, 2018 at 7:37 PM ^
In honor of the Cats...
November 10th, 2018 at 7:39 PM ^
I was at the Gopher - Purdue game today. Purdue made the Gophers look like a powerhouse. That is really, really, really hard to do.
Brohm is definitely getting the hell out of West Layfette and heading to Louisville as soon as they jettison Petrino.
November 10th, 2018 at 7:58 PM ^
Really hoping for this.
November 10th, 2018 at 8:12 PM ^
I hope that's the case because Karlaftis, but if I were a Louisville booster I'd be a bit nervous about what Purdue's season means about Brohm.
November 10th, 2018 at 9:25 PM ^
I wouldn’t. Purdue was 9-39 the four seasons before Brohm. Immediately turning that around into two .500 seasons, before any of your recruits can even be upper classmen, is not something to thumb one’s nose at. Meanwhile, Louisville is not really a destination job in college football — it’s fine, but coaches tend to leave for better places if they’ve been successful. For Brohm, on the other hand, it might be a place he’s willing to stay at for a long time. They should absolutely want him.
November 10th, 2018 at 11:53 PM ^
Tell me one thing, why can't the louisville bb coaching staff share the hookers and blow with the fb coaching staff???
November 11th, 2018 at 2:00 AM ^
You think they should be worried that his team beat a top ten team and were in B1G West race until game 10 in just his second season?
November 10th, 2018 at 9:08 PM ^
Don't look now but Purdue still has to play Wisconsin and Indiana. Based on the complete Jekyll and Hyde nature of that team, I could easily see them losing both those games. Not sure Brohm would be so hot coming off a 5-7 season.
November 10th, 2018 at 7:39 PM ^
I'd have liked a chance to wallop Iowa, but whatever. If we play our game we wallop NW, too.
November 10th, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^
Insert FitzPrematureCelebration.gif
November 11th, 2018 at 9:23 AM ^
Phrasing...
November 10th, 2018 at 7:42 PM ^
I knew NW had a shot at winning the west because they had a good number of seniors and the ususal Pat Fitzgerald discipline. I then [edit] thought they were toast after all the injuries ( running back in particular). I suspect that Iowa is really not as good as some were saying earlier in the season. It will be fun to see what Don Brown can come up with the second time around assuming that Michigan beats OSU.
November 10th, 2018 at 8:07 PM ^
You knew they had a shot at winning and thought they were toast?
Covering all the bases?
November 11th, 2018 at 2:04 AM ^
I think Don Brown came up with something in about the second quarter when we shut them down the rest of the way.
Northwestern has a solid defense though. I think they'll stay in it for a half if Michigan is fortunate enough to play them. 14-7 Michigan at halftime. 31-10 final.
November 10th, 2018 at 7:49 PM ^
And I hope we get a first half rematch & a second half blowout.
November 10th, 2018 at 7:50 PM ^
No we are Champions of the West
November 10th, 2018 at 8:12 PM ^
-GO! BLUE!
November 10th, 2018 at 7:50 PM ^
Northwestern deserves some credit...
road wins @Purdue, @Michigan State, @Iowa
beat Wisconsin handily
close losses to Michigan, Notre Dame
down year for the division and all, but they didn't fold early in the year and won some tough games.
November 11th, 2018 at 2:06 AM ^
I would imagine they'll enter the CFP top 25 this coming week. Certainly some impressive road wins.
Head-scratching home losses to Duke and Akron, but that's Northwestern for ya, I guess.
November 10th, 2018 at 7:55 PM ^
November 10th, 2018 at 8:01 PM ^
Northwestern has now won 13 of its last 14 Big Ten games. Most have come against the West, but still, wow.
November 10th, 2018 at 8:04 PM ^
BIG West is dogshit.
November 10th, 2018 at 8:05 PM ^
Big congrats to NU!
Now let's take care of business next week, make that biggest stop on the Revenge Tour a success, and then beat them!
November 10th, 2018 at 8:13 PM ^
Considering that NW players actually have to play school at a damn good institution, good on Fitz.
November 10th, 2018 at 8:16 PM ^
Imagine the poetry of Michigan being the champion of the West Division
November 10th, 2018 at 8:16 PM ^
Seriously need to realign these divisions. I get why UM and OSU have to be in the same (to preserve the importance of The Game) but PSU and MSU could move
November 10th, 2018 at 11:13 PM ^
November 10th, 2018 at 11:33 PM ^
I don't think that would change the competitive imbalance between the east and west. Hopefully Frost can get the Huskers back to being a solid program.
November 11th, 2018 at 2:11 AM ^
What does that solve? Doesn't move the needle. Iowa is one of the few teams in the West with a pulse. Swapping them with MSU is basically a wash as is Illinois for IU.
All they really need to do is swap Purdue for MSU. It keeps the geography East-West and just requires M-MSU to have a protected crossover the way Purdue and IU do now.
Can't split up M and OSU and for geographical reasons, tough to put PSU in the other division.
November 11th, 2018 at 9:29 AM ^
Garbage in, garbage out
November 11th, 2018 at 5:15 PM ^
Sticking to geographical locations is what got them in this mess. It’s leaders and legends. Drop the east/west and make them balanced.
November 10th, 2018 at 11:56 PM ^
....yes move ped state OUT of the B1G.
BTW, FUCK ped state and all their delusional joepa loving fans and all the paternos and field goal franklin!!!
November 10th, 2018 at 9:30 PM ^
Revenge tour continues. They were the only BIG team to scare us this season!
November 10th, 2018 at 11:08 PM ^
This is definitely the time to go to the title game. I am glad NW got there and would love to play them. I think UM would easily win based on how they have been playing lately. There is that tricky OSU game first, though. I’d feel much better if the game was in Ann Arbor. I have a feeling this year’s game will be similar to 2016. Hopefully the referees are not OSU fans and guys willing to accept bonuses to unfairly call the game.
November 10th, 2018 at 11:15 PM ^
Clinching the Big Ten West and bowl eligibility on the same day!
(yes yes I know with their APR they had a good chance with 5 wins too)
November 10th, 2018 at 11:46 PM ^
good for them.
November 11th, 2018 at 12:01 AM ^
If we win vs OSU this'll be great and if we lose it'll blow
November 11th, 2018 at 7:58 AM ^
Northwestern winning the West is such a hot topic that this post turned into grammar corrections and jokes. I love this site
November 11th, 2018 at 8:29 AM ^
Its a joke and bad look for these conference games. Divisions within all these conferences are so unbalanced and its ruining the game. Scrap all Divisions amd take top 2 teams. BIG12 is doing it right!
November 11th, 2018 at 9:18 AM ^
It's complete horseshit that the Big XII has a conference title game.
November 11th, 2018 at 9:56 AM ^
Sucks that they lost all of their non conference games, but they'll still probably be ranked by then if they win out. Fingers crossed, at least.
November 11th, 2018 at 2:22 PM ^
I'm not looking at the four losses. NW is pretty good. They had us on the ropes. They gave ND a good game. They won at Iowa. They show up against good competition and shit the bed against bad competition. If we make it to Indy, we better be prepared. The good news is Michigan's staff has a full game of data on NW. The bad news is NW's staff also has a full game of data on us. But I trust our staff will RPS better the second time around.
November 12th, 2018 at 7:21 AM ^
A four loss team wins their division two weeks early. I wonder if BTN needs realignment.