Last year’s Big Ten West champs have looked nothing of the sort through three games this season.
While the 3-0 Badgers have been lights out from the start of the season and currently rank as the No. 8 team in the nation after taking out Michigan, Northwestern sits at 1-2 and is coming off of an embarrassing 31-10 loss at home to Michigan State in which it managed just 2.8 yards per play on offense. The Wildcats have been disappointing from the jump, losing to a bad Stanford squad in ugly fashion in Week 1 and letting UNLV hang around for most of the game before pulling away late.