West is only direction for NU-Illinois at Wrigley

U coach Pat Fitzgerald said: "You want to talk about maybe the most unique game ever played in college football history? We have it right here. I think it will be really cool."

He added the setting will remind him of playing sandlot ball as a kid.

"It's like being back in Orland Park: Losers walk," he said. "It's football. Let's go."

Teddy Greenstein