The Wildcats meet the Blue Devils for the third straight year.

By Will Greer Through one half in its 2017 opener Saturday, Northwestern’s slow-start-to-the-season story seemed all too familiar.  Sizable underdog Nevada led the Wildcats 17-7, was set to begin the second half with the ball and seemingly had all sorts of momentum. Shades of Western Michigan. Shades of Illinois State. Shades of 2016. But, led by quarterback Clayton Thorson and

By Will Greer This time last year, if you had asked almost any Penn State fan how warm their head coach James Franklin’s seat was entering his third season in charge of Nittany Lions football, he or she likely would have responded with some variation of “quite hot.” Franklin had coached Penn State to consecutive 7-6 seasons in his first