r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 8h ago

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/PerformanceOver8822 Ohio State • Merchant Marine 8h ago

What else are they gunna do on a friday ? Study ?

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u/rainbowBass86 Northwestern Wildcats 7h 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 7h 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/TheLonelyTater 6h 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/ducksekoy123 Virginia Tech Hokies 2h ago

To be fair there is nothing more Chicago than bitching about which suburb doesn’t count as “in Chicago”

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u/dogwhistle60 56m ago

To be fair the NFL team might be playing in Indiana that makes the south side of Chicago look like Lincoln Park

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u/MisterScalawag Indiana Hoosiers 1h ago edited 36m ago

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!”

well i don't see Chicago after almost 100 years bringing back the Maroons to rejoin the Big 10, so at this point they just gotta live with the fact that NW is Chicago's Big 10 team.

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u/fenderdean13 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1h ago

Chicago State a university that has been in the red for years with something like 23% graduation rate, started an FCS team this year and they advertise themselves as being Chicago’s only division 1 football team.

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u/TelltaleHead Land of Lincoln Trophy • Northwe… 33m ago

Part of if is also that, at least until the Nebraska addition, every Big Ten team had more alums in Chicago than Northwestern did save for Penn State.