Maintaining a spotless mark two-thirds of the way into the 2018 college football season, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish face an interesting clash on Saturday. For the first time since 1976, the Irish will travel to the campus of the 5-3 Northwestern Wildcats. In five previous matchups since that contest 42 years ago, the locale has either been South Bend or Chicago.
Northwestern is coming is coming off an upset win over Wisconsin to collect their fourth straight victory, but has dropped both of its games this year outside of Big Ten competition. Meanwhile, Notre Dame handled Navy and racked up nearly 600 yards of total offense in winning the game.