[Postgame Thread] Northwestern Defeats Penn State 34-13

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Penn State	0	7	0	6	13
Northwestern	10	14	7	3	34

[u/Powerful_Hall]

So we have established that Colorado, Indiana, and Penn State are all much worse than everybody thought.

Or maybe the more logical explanation is that Northwestern is better than everybody thought?

[u/jdprager → u/Powerful_Hall]

Narrow loss to reigning national champs on the road followed by 413 rushing yards against a nearly-ranked B1G team

Cats are for real

[u/Chicago_Blackhawks → u/jdprager]

5,000 of our undergrads in attendance too (that’s 62.5% of our student body). Like come ON

[u/TopHatTony11 → u/Chicago_Blackhawks]

Second most impressive stat of the night.

[u/PerformanceOver8822 → u/Chicago_Blackhawks]

What else are they gunna do on a friday ? Study ?

[u/rainbowBass86 → u/PerformanceOver8822]

lol I just got back from the game and went straight to studying, everyone I know who didn't go was studying too

[u/americagigabit → u/rainbowBass86]

Do y’all get the city to buy in at all? We struggle to do that here, if I lived in Chicago I would have been there despite no ties to the university

[u/MrRichStarfish → u/americagigabit]

The city of Evanston hates Northwestern and the nearest Chicago neighborhoods aren’t really the football types. Now if they were on the South Side? Whole different story

[u/Mother_Frame6669 → u/MrRichStarfish]

That's okay, I've hated Evanston ever since I read about what that one middle school did to that kid who tried to help his depressed friend.

[u/formerlyfed → u/Mother_Frame6669]

Good you should hate Evanston, they’re awful NIMBYs and their hatred towards NU is totally unreasonable. I grew up in a college town where they set couches on fire, Northwestern students are unbelievably well behaved in comparison and the university is actually very separate geographically from where most people live, esp as more than half the student body lives on campus. 

(Ex wildcat here, obvs haha)

[u/TheLonelyTater → u/americagigabit]

Chicagoans seem to resent that NU claims to be “Chicago’s Big Ten Team,” probably because of some combination of perceived elitism and the fact that the stadium isn’t in Chicago’s city limits, despite being served by Chicago transit, among other things.

Like literally any time NU posts something about being “Chicago’s B1G team” there is inevitably a comment saying “you’re not even in Chicago!”

So yeah they try but it doesn’t work.

[u/ducksekoy123 → u/TheLonelyTater]

To be fair there is nothing more Chicago than bitching about which suburb doesn’t count as “in Chicago”

[u/dogwhistle60 → u/ducksekoy123]

To be fair the NFL team might be playing in Indiana that makes the south side of Chicago look like Lincoln Park

[u/fenderdean13 → u/dogwhistle60]

It’s looking like Arlington Heights is a lot more likely again

[u/fenderdean13 → u/TheLonelyTater]

Chicago State a university that has been in the red for years with something like 23% graduation rate, started an FCS team this year and they advertise themselves as being Chicago’s only division 1 football team.

[u/TelltaleHead → u/TheLonelyTater]

Part of if is also that, at least until the Nebraska addition, every Big Ten team had more alums in Chicago than Northwestern did save for Penn State. 

[u/MisterScalawag → u/TheLonelyTater]

Like literally any time NU posts something about being “Chicago’s B1G team” there is inevitably a comment saying “you’re not even in Chicago!”

well i don't see Chicago after almost 100 years bringing back the Maroons to rejoin the Big 10, so at this point they just gotta live with the fact that NW is Chicago's Big 10 team.

[u/bighurt710 → u/TheLonelyTater]

I would say the biggest pushback is that you have ~400k BIG alumni living in Chicago and only ~10% are NW grads

[u/Mother_Frame6669 → u/rainbowBass86]

NERDS!!!!

(but we love you for it)

[u/Kvetch__22 → u/rainbowBass86]

It's midterms man get back to the books

[u/french_xp → u/PerformanceOver8822]

yes indeed

[u/Milton__Obote → u/PerformanceOver8822]

The keg shut down years ago sadly

[u/TelltaleHead → u/Milton__Obote]

Fuck Mayor Tisdahl

[u/curr3nzy → u/PerformanceOver8822]

Northwestern students sometimes do both at the same time

[u/Con45 → u/Chicago_Blackhawks]

That’s incredible. The student section was very impressive.

[u/Sermokala → u/Con45]

And they placed it right above the away locker room.

[u/PM_UR_FAV_COMPLIMENT → u/Con45]

Building it like something you'd see in a modern soccer stadium was a great choice. Seemed like the players appreciated the energy as well!

[u/transferStudent2018 → u/Chicago_Blackhawks]

And the vast majority stayed for the entire thing. It’s midterm season!

[u/lifetake → u/Chicago_Blackhawks]

Well damn. Thats some attendance right there.

[u/Ok-Foot-4352 → u/Chicago_Blackhawks]

That’s cool that NW has seemed to find the winning groove. The downside is your stadium now holds only 35k and ticket prices could get REALLY expensive.

[u/Chicago_Blackhawks → u/Ok-Foot-4352]

for suuurreee, no doubt