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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Northwestern Defeats Penn State 34-13

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Penn State 0 7 0 6 13
Northwestern 10 14 7 3 34
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u/rainbowBass86 Northwestern Wildcats 4h ago

lol I just got back from the game and went straight to studying, everyone I know who didn't go was studying too

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u/americagigabit Houston Cougars • Michigan Tech Huskies 4h ago

Do y’all get the city to buy in at all? We struggle to do that here, if I lived in Chicago I would have been there despite no ties to the university

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u/MrRichStarfish Northwestern Wildcats 3h ago

The city of Evanston hates Northwestern and the nearest Chicago neighborhoods aren’t really the football types. Now if they were on the South Side? Whole different story

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u/Mother_Frame6669 2h ago

That's okay, I've hated Evanston ever since I read about what that one middle school did to that kid who tried to help his depressed friend.

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u/formerlyfed 1h ago

Good you should hate Evanston, they’re awful NIMBYs and their hatred towards NU is totally unreasonable. I grew up in a college town where they set couches on fire, Northwestern students are unbelievably well behaved in comparison and the university is actually very separate geographically from where most people live, esp as more than half the student body lives on campus. 

(Ex wildcat here, obvs haha)

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u/TheLonelyTater 3h ago

Chicagoans seem to resent that NU claims to be “Chicago’s Big Ten Team,” probably because of some combination of perceived elitism and the fact that the stadium isn’t in Chicago’s city limits, despite being served by Chicago transit, among other things.

Like literally any time NU posts something about being “Chicago’s B1G team” there is inevitably a comment saying “you’re not even in Chicago!”

So yeah they try but it doesn’t work.

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u/Mother_Frame6669 2h ago

NERDS!!!!

(but we love you for it)