Northwestern and Massachusetts — what do you think of when you hear the names of those two schools? Some of you might have fond(?) memories of the 45-6 drubbing the ‘Cats laid out on the Minutemen back in 2019, when NU was 1-8 entering the game and was at that point considered the worst team Pat Fitzgerald had ever coached in Evanston.
Well, here’s another thing you can now associate UMass with for as long as you so choose — it is the only other school in the FBS that has gone 1-17 in its past 18 games along with Northwestern.