We open bowl week with a more in-depth look at Northwestern thanks to SB Nation's Inside NU, where Zach Pereles was good enough to trade questions and answers with us:
The surface level story on Northwestern this year is, "good defense, bad offense." How much truth is in that? Do you feel like Northwestern's offense isn't getting enough credit?
That's pretty much it, except it could really be "really, really good defense, really, really bad offense." Northwestern's offense has shown signs of life-- see the second half against Nebraska and the first half against Illinois-- but in general, has been very bad and at times unwatchable.