Every Thursday during football season, we'll be presenting reasons why Northwestern will or won't come away from its Saturday game victorious. It's not so much an argument for or against either result as it is envisioning the scenarios in which the Wildcats come away from the game with a win or a loss.
This week, the Wildcats play their second consecutive top-20 matchup in what is arguably their most pivotal game of the season as they take on the 6-0 Iowa Hawkeyes in Evanston for their Homecoming game. After flying under the radar in their opening games of the season, the Hawkeyes emerged in the AP Poll week 6 and have since moved up to No.