Penn State travels to Evanston on Saturday with a team coming off a trip to the Rose Bowl and with plenty of names that are familiar in the college football world.
It’s hard to believe there was once a time when Northwestern was in much the same position.
Since joining the Big Ten in 1993, Penn State’s all-time longest win streak in conference games is the 12 straight it won from the end of the ‘93 season to the unbeaten 1994 year.
Two years after losing to Penn State’s famed offense, former college football laughing stock Northwestern entered Beaver Stadium riding a 13-game conference winning streak with its focus on a second-straight Big Ten title and trip to Pasadena.