6 months ago Article 26 comments

Plays of the Week: Fat Man Touchdown

Northwestern turned to a trick play to get Paul Jorgensen a touchdown

6 months ago Article 41 comments

Northwestern Wildcats 50, Illinois Fighting Illini 14: Postgame Thread

Northwestern finished strong on Senior Day, moving to 9-3 (5-3)

6 months ago Article 19 comments

Northwestern-Illinois football preview/prediction threadstravaganza!

Northwestern can win nine games, win a hat, win on senior day, and win Pat Fitzgerald's record-tying 49th game as Northwestern's head coach when they take on Illinois Saturday. Kinda like a big deal.

6 months ago Article 0 comments

Name of the Week, Illinois edition

Illinois has some strong names, like FRITZ ROCK, DeJazz Woods, and V'Angelo Bentley.

6 months ago Article 0 comments

Pat Fitzgerald Intense-O-Meter: Illinois

Northwestern takes on Illinois in a game the Wildcats wanna win for a bunch of reasons: it's senior day, the last game of the year with a great bowl placement in sight, and also Illinois is our most bitter rival and really bad at football.

6 months ago Article 19 comments

Evan Watkins, Tim Riley, seven others forgoing senior seasons

A whopping nine Northwestern juniors won't be coming back for their senior years, including former starting QB Evan Watkins and superback Tim Riley, who caught a touchdown last week against Michigan State.

6 months ago Article 7 comments

SoP Q-and-A: @TomFornelli talks Tim Beckman, Northwestern-Illinois, and depression

Tom Fornelli of The Champaign Room stops by to talk Illinois football, as well as whether or not Northwestern is a rivalry and how Illinois became so friggin awful.

6 months ago Article 18 comments

Northwestern vs. Illinois football: Wildcats must win LOLHat from winless Illini

Northwestern needs to beat an Illinois team with no Big Ten wins on Saturday for many reasons: bowl placement, Senior Day, and a rivalry game over a hat-shaped trophy. But most importantly: we must get revenge for Patrick Ward's junk.