WNUR Sports Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) simulates this week’s matchup between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the University of Michigan Wolverines with the help of NCAA Football ’13. For Northwestern at Michigan, a lot of the storylines in the simulation are similar to those in real life. The ‘Cats are underdogs for Saturday’s game, despite a higher BCS ranking.
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WNUR Sports Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) simulates Saturday’s match-up between the Northwestern Wildcats and the Iowa Hawkeyes using NCAA Football ’13. You might want to look away, Wildcat fans. We’re two-thirds of the way through Northwestern’s season. A great chance to step back and look at how well this simulation has fared compared to real life. At first
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By: Benjamin Goren Saturday at 2:30 CST, the Cornhuskers of Nebraska (4-2) will ride into Evanston to play the Northwestern Wildcats (6-1). The Cornhuskers, coming off of a bye week, will be looking to rebound from their 63-38 drubbing at the hands of Ohio State. Nebraska brings with it a powerful stable of rushing options, leading the Huskers to the
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WNUR Sports Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) previews Saturday’s game between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers with the assistance of NCAA Football ’13. It’s always been human nature to try to find out what will happen before it does. In ancient times, priests and priestesses that could interpret divine prophecy held high social status.
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By Benjamin Goren The inability to close games that so plagued the Wildcats in their 2011 campaign struck again in Happy Valley today as Northwestern was beaten by the Nittany Lions of Penn State 39-28. Northwestern walked in to a blustery Happy Valley hoping to go 6-0 for the first time since 1962, but Penn State had other ideas, outscoring
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The WNUR Sports staff offers their predictions of Saturday’s football game between the #24 Northwestern Wildcats and the Penn State Nittany Lions in Happy Valley. Raise your hand if you thought at the beginning of the year that the Northwestern Wildcats would be 5-0, the Minnesota Gophers would be 4-1, the Arkansas Razorbacks would be 1-4 and that Taken 2
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WNUR Sports Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) uses NCAA Football ’13 to predict the outcome of the Northwestern Wildcat’s match-up with the Indiana Hoosiers this Saturday. Conference games in the Big Ten get started this week, and the virtual Wildcats are set to take on the Hoosiers. In real life, Northwestern beat Indiana easily last year. However, this simulated
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WNUR Co-Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) breaks down Northwestern’s 22-13 victory over Boston College Saturday by giving the three up/three down for the Wildcats. So, this football thing… it’s kinda loco. If you picked Northwestern and Minnesota to be the final remaining undefeateds in the Big Ten Legends Division, you just win at life and need to book a one-way
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The WNUR staff weighs in with their picks for the Week 3 match-up between the Northwestern Wildcats and the Boston College Eagles. Welcome back to the wondrous world of wistful predictions as the WNUR Sports staff gives you their predictions of what will happen when Northwestern takes on Boston College on Saturday. Coverage of Saturday’s game will begin at 1:30
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WNUR Sports Social Media Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) uses NCAA Football ’13 to predict the outcome of the Northwestern Wildcat’s match-up with the Boston College Eagles this Saturday. It’s time for week 3 of the only column that provides a tangible answer to the question, “how will Northwestern fare on the gridiron this week?” To answer that question, I’m using
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WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) breaks down Northwestern’s 23-13 victory over the Vanderbilt Commodores Saturday by giving the three up/ three down for the ‘Cats. Vanderbilt is a better school than Northwestern and this year has a better football team. Vandy 20 @nw 14. — Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) September 7, 2012 This is how the second half of my
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