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We played UK in our bowl game last year. Literally a Cat fight. And it kinda was. SEC plays ugly.

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NU was also a dog against Iowa and Wisconsin, somewhat understandably, and against Minnesota, which was kinda ridiculous. I would expect a fairly close score. We had little running game for much of the season due to injury, but had significant improvement at the end. Our passing game is very inconsistent–can pummel opponents when it has momentum, but Thorson is very prone to INTs. If the NU defense is healthy, Utah will need to have success passing, because NU should be able to contain the ground game. Huntley could definitely burn us if he’s healthy. I think 8.5 is a bit high. I would have expected perhaps 4 or 5.

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Most are flying their private jets into Carlsbad. 

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Hardage is the best guy in the secondary. He had injury problems during the course of the season, but a month to heal should help.

Skowronek has some height, but most of our receivers aren’t huge.

For the running game, look at the last few games of the season–Bowser, Mouton and Hanaoka, to some extent, have given us a much more balanced attack than mid-season when the offense was mostly on Thorson.

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More of the former, though if he is under pressure, he will sometimes force things he shouldn’t. 

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1981 would have been smack in the middle of The Streak–a record setting losing streak of 30 + games for Northwestern, running from 1979-1982. It was broken the year before I went there. We call that The Dark Ages and 1995-present, The Modern Era. The coach who broke the streak and earned Big Ten COY for getting NU to three wins was none other than Dennis Green. Yes, he was who we thought he was.

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It probably wouldn’t hurt, but the Cats don’t play OSU all that much (before the CCG it was the 2016 season). Of course, last night was the most recent data point, but that’s all Urban would have.

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