After back-to-back disappointing seasons in 2013 and 2014, Northwestern’s star running back knew that the 2015 season opener represented a unique opportunity for the Wildcat football program.
“I remember us having an attitude of wanting to prove who we were at the time, prove what type of program we could be,” Justin Jackson, now Northwestern’s all-time leading rusher, recently told Inside NU. “We knew Stanford [was] another highly regarded academic school as well as an athletic school; them coming to our home field, we wanted to beat them on a national stage.”
And the Wildcats did just that.