It was a particularly frustrating campaign, considering one year earlier Northwestern went 10-3 and won a bowl game for the first time in 64 years. Things got off to a promising enough start, which included a season-opening win at California […]
After jumping out to a 2-0 start, Nebraska hit a bump in the road and fell at home to 16th-ranked UCLA on Sept. 14 by a 41-21 final, as the Bruins reeled off 38 unanswered points. The Cornhuskers rebounded with […]
However, they were hoping for bigger things considering at one point they were 8-2 and coming off a bye week. Northwestern, Nebraska, Indiana and Penn State had all fallen victim to the Gophers in consecutive weeks. Minnesota’s final two games […]
Michigan State went 13-1, finished No. 3 in the country and won the Big Ten Championship Game with a 34-24 win over second-ranked Ohio State, which marked the Buckeyes’ first loss in nearly two years. MSU went on to play […]
A 5-0 start featuring wins over Notre Dame (41-30) and at UConn (24-21) catapulted Michigan to No. 18 in the AP poll entering its highly anticipated Oct. 12 road bout with Penn State. However, the Nittany Lions pulled out that […]
After all, Maryland raced into its first bye a perfect 4-0 following back-to- back convincing wins at Connecticut (32-21) and at home against West Virginia (37-0). But things took a turn for the worse following an Oct. 5 meeting with […]
Iowa doubled its win total and earned a New Year’s Day bowl bid against 14th- ranked LSU. Certainly, there were doubters following a season-opening home loss to Northern Illinois. At that point, Iowa had lost seven in a row going […]
They opened the season with lopsided wins over Indiana State (73-35) and Bowling Green (42-10), and a tough, 41-35 setback to Navy. After falling to Missouri by a 45-28 final on Sept. 21, Indiana went into its first bye week […]
The team got off to a promising 3-1 start, which included wins over Cincinnati (45-17) and Miami-Ohio (50-14) sandwiched around a 10-point loss to Washington. Illinois went on the road for the first time on Oct. 5 and was dealt […]
But even before the Irish took the field for an official game, the team was hit with a damaging blow when starting quarterback Everett Golson was suspended due to what was being reported as an academic violation. Golson was allowed […]