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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Player in purple uniform runs down field.

Football: Northwestern seeks to avenge 2020 loss to Michigan State in nationally televised Friday night opener

September 2, 2021

Football It seems like yesterday, but it was long ago. A little more than nine months have lapsed since the afternoon of Nov. 28, 2020 — the day Michigan State dealt then-No. 8 Northwestern its...

Players in purple uniforms are arm-in-arm as they walk out of the tunnel onto Ryan Field.

Football: Northwestern seeks third Big Ten Championship appearance in four years

August 16, 2021

Football Last year, Northwestern put together its best season since 1995. By making the Big Ten Championship Game for the second time in three years and winning the 2021 Citrus Bowl, the Wildcats...

Pat Fitzgerald lifts up the Holiday Bowl Trophy after Northwestern took down Utah 31-20 on New Year's Day in 2019. He’ll hope for more celebrations like that in the next ten years, having just signed a decade-long contract extension to stay at NU.

Riker: Wildcat football’s biggest win of the season comes at the end with Fitzgerald extension

January 28, 2021

The most successful era of Northwestern sports came to a close on a sunny January afternoon in Orlando. The Wildcats’ 35-19 win over Auburn on Jan. 1 gave NU a Citrus Bowl trophy to top off a wildly...

Redshirt freshman safety Brandon Joseph patrols the field during the Big Ten Championship game. Joseph figures to play a major role in new defensive coordinator Jim O’Neil’s plans next season.

Football: Northwestern hires NFL’s Jim O’Neil to serve as defensive coordinator

January 19, 2021

Football Northwestern is hiring Las Vegas Raiders defensive backs coach Jim O’Neil as its defensive coordinator, tapping a former graduate assistant and longtime NFL coach to replace the recently...

Pat Fitzgerald and Jesse Brown left the Citrus Bowl trophy. Northwestern won the game 35-19.

Football: No. 14 Northwestern beats Auburn in Citrus Bowl for 4th straight bowl victory

January 1, 2021

Football The last time Pat Fitzgerald took a trip to Orlando with Northwestern, as a senior linebacker on Gary Barnett’s 1996 Wildcats team, he watched a quarterback named Peyton pass and throw...

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