Walking away from Ryan Field on Saturday, I (Henry Bushnell) was brainstorming content ideas in reaction to Northwestern's win over No. 21 Stanford. I texted Josh Rosenblat telling him that if both Nebraska and Wisconsin were to lose. We were going to do a roundtable answering the simple question: "Is Northwestern the favorite in the Big Ten West?"
His response was probably one you had when reading the title: "Yusss. [Flame emoji] takes all day." And it's true, to say Northwestern was immediately the division favorite would've been a pretty hot take. But given the other results, I told him, it was a question worth answering.