Northwestern Football Schedule Breakdown: Sure Wins, Potential Losses, Big Ten Teams Missed

Pete Fiutak

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In the new 18-team Big Ten, it’s all about the schedules, who everyone misses and where, and when the nasty games are. You know who the biggest teams are - some get a much bigger break than others.

No game is a 100% lock in the Big Ten, and there are always surprises, but for the most part, what are the relatively certain wins on the 2024 Northwestern football schedule? What are the likely underdog games - the true 50/50 games are left alone - and which Big Ten teams does Northwestern miss?

Northwestern Football Schedule: Relatively certain Wildcat wins

Eastern Illinois

Northwestern Football Schedule: Relatively certain Wildcat underdog games

at Iowa, at Maryland, at Michigan, Ohio State, at Washington, Wisconsin

Northwestern Football Schedule: Who do the Wildcats miss in the Big Ten?

Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Penn State, Rutgers, UCLA, USC

2024 Northwestern Football Schedule

Aug 31 Miami University
Sept 7 Duke
Sept 14 Eastern Illinois
Sept 21 at Washington
Sept 28 OPEN DATE
Oct 5 Indiana
Oct 12 at Maryland
Oct 19 Wisconsin
Oct 26 at Iowa
Nov 2 at Purdue
Nov 9 OPEN DATE
Nov 16 Ohio State
Nov 23 at Michigan
Nov 30 Illinois

Pete Fiutak

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Publisher of CollegeFootballNews.com starting in 1998, Pete Fiutak was a college football part of the very start of Rivals, Scout, the FOXSports.com relaunch, Stadium/Campus Insiders, and the USA TODAY College Wire sites. 

He was the first ever on-air guest on CBS Sports Network, was a talking head for five years at Stadium, and did in-stadium TV work at the first five College Football Playoff National Championships. But all anyone really seems to care about is that he did all the player ratings for various college football and basketball video games for four years in the 2000s.