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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/Bulky_Preparation768 Alabama Crimson Tide 14d ago

Illinois not wasting tax payer money funding a stadium is having their shit together

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u/engineerbuilder Notre Dame Fighting Irish 14d ago

Yeah I was with OP on everything except that. As a Tennessean who saw literal billionaires twist and pry $500m from the state and $700m from the city while only putting up $700m and seeing the condition of…everything….

NFL teams can go fuck themselves begging for dollars.

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u/FieldsToTheMoon 14d ago

The Bears claiming they are paying for the stadium and then moving to Indiana bc they can’t afford one is the problem