Next up in CornNation’s preview of Nebraska football’s 2019 football opponent is the defending Big Ten west champion Northwestern Wildcats.
Wait. What?
Yep, it happened in 2018. Northwestern did their usual thing in playing pretty much smart football in division play. Non-conference play was a different matter entirely, losing at home 39-34 to Akron along with losses to Duke and Notre Dame. But against the Big Ten west? A perfect 6-0.
One could make the argument that Northwestern won the Big Ten west by default last season. Purdue committed a really stupid penalty to keep Northwestern’s game winning drive alive.