If someone asked you to paint a picture of what a bowl-eligible Northwestern football team would like a year ago, what would you have constructed?
I couldn’t begin to speculate what’s running through your mind, but I can make a few bets. I bet that you wouldn’t have imagined a David Braun-led team, certainly not under the conditions in which he ascended to the head coach post. I bet that you wouldn’t have suspected a 21-point comeback against a Big Ten opponent was in the cards. I bet that you wouldn’t have fathomed a formerly 1-11 team, who lost multiple talents to the NFL, would accumulate more wins in its following season through six weeks.