I offered my input with a guest post on Breakfast with the Big Ten on the history of Northwestern football misery and pessimism slowly turning into cautious optimism with each win in our fight to stay relevant.

Despite the success of the team this fall that plays what Rodger would call "real football", the team with the best chance to take home a Big Ten title is still the men's soccer squad who took home the crown last season. The 'Cats are struggling for the first time this season with consecutive non-conference midweek losses sandwiching a sloppy Big Ten win over Michigan State to maintain a first place tie with Indiana. They have the weekend off of Big Ten play, but play the tenth ranked, Notre Dame Fightin' Irish Tuesday. See how I think the Wildcats will do and what's on tap for the rest of the Big Ten this weekend.

I breakdown this weekend's men's soccer contests and group the conference of 7 teams into 3 haves and 4 have-nots. Northwestern is in the former group and are still favorites to repeat their Big Ten title at 1-0 in conference play and 6-1-2 overall, despite having their 17 game regular season unbeaten streak snapped Wednesday night. The Wildcats have their first nationally televised game Sunday at 3:30 PM (ET) on BTN vs Michigan State.

Big Ten soccer starts this weekend. See who has the necessary ingredients to win the conference based on my experiences and observations over the last five years. Northwestern and Indiana are the early front-runners.

My analysis and outlook of the unbeaten, defending B1G champion Northwestern men's soccer team and the rest of the conference, previewing all of the games on tap this weekend for Big Ten Network.