r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 14d ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Northwestern Defeats Penn State 34-13

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Penn State 0 7 0 6 13
Northwestern 10 14 7 3 34
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u/IThoughtThisWasVoat Nebraska Cornhuskers 14d ago

Announcement / FYI for you fucking idiots:

Northwestern isn’t some random scrub that “came out of nowhere.” This is the exact same playbook people laughed at with Indiana.

They just dropped $850–875 million on a brand-new Ryan Field. Privately funded. Ryan family alone put up $480 million. That’s not a locker-room upgrade — that’s an NFL-style stadium. Meanwhile the Bears are packing up and moving to fucking Hammond/Gary because Illinois couldn’t get its act together. Northwestern built a palace while the NFL team flees the state.

They also just got another $35 million purely for the football program. Bankrolled.

David Braun isn’t some random interim. He came from North Dakota State (actual FCS dynasty). He’s got Chip Kelly as OC — actual Chip Kelly, fresh off helping Ohio State win a title — plus Jerry Neuheisel, the blonde-haired UCLA guy who stepped up as play-caller last year and helped them stun Penn State. This isn’t a scrub staff.

Clearly they should be ranked. They’re not some dumb shit team anymore. College football changed. Follow the money. Bankroll the program, get the right underdog coach and staff, and the old hierarchy looks stupid. Indiana proved it. Northwestern is running the same experiment with better facilities.

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u/Infamous-Present-616 Indiana Hoosiers • Rose Bowl 14d ago

I was waiting for Stanford to start throwing money around and Northwestern decided to say “F it, why not us”

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u/Money_Housing_2938 Notre Dame • Cal Poly 14d ago

Stanford could probably own the ACC if they really rallied the donors

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u/Milton__Obote LSU Tigers • Northwestern Wildcats 14d ago

Stanford has tech bros who don’t care about football we have finance bros who do

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u/Dry-Membership3867 Jacksonville State • Arkansas 14d ago

They have, they got a massive donation last year. But Andrew Luck is too worried about hiring his buds to be HC to care

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u/alexbananas ESPNU • SEC Network 14d ago

Stanford are a bunch of nerds who don’t care about sports (and that’s how it should be imo so props to stanford)

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u/Chaotic-PopTart Team Chaos • Pop-Tarts Bowl 14d ago

Unfortunately for the Cardinals, Stanford alum are too busy dropping $3 trillion into a regurgitation machine they think is a death god