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Around the Big Ten, Week 9: the ‘Cats growl, Penn State holds on

Every Sunday, after an entire Saturday’s worth of college football, we’ll take a look around the Big Ten. As the conference as a whole fights as respectability in the non-conference, or as its power dynamics shift on a week-to-week basis this fall, we’ll follow every team and try to piece together the puzzle that is the 13-week-long season all the way up until Indianapolis.

Here are the top storylines from Week 9:

Northwestern beats No. 20 Wisconsin to take control of the West

Wow. Just wow. In one of Pat Fitzgerald’s biggest games since becoming head coach of the Wildcats 13 years ago, his team finally came to play against a vaunted division opponent.