Northwestern started it

"Zook calls out Northwestern publicly for their non-conference schedule. Really?" ABSOLUTELY. God bless him for it. When Teddy Greenstein gets close to these numbers, he cites them as being "slightly off" and quickly changes the subject to overall strength of schedule. Why? Because 46th and 71st sounds a heckuva lot better than 1st and 120th. Teams can't control their conference schedules. But they control every bit of their non-conference schedule. And Pat Fitzgerald has chosen the easiest schedule in the country the last three years.

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