It was a weird game up in Madison with both positives and negatives. We look at the game from both angles as we turn our gaze forward to this weekend’s Homecoming game against #4 Penn State. We are your premier Northwestern Sports Podcast! You can download the episode from iTunes or directly from here.

Our picks are in for our 2017 picks contest.

Erik is running away with this one after a 4/5 week and has 21 points: South Florida (5) USC (4) Auburn (4) NC State (4) and Notre Dame (4)

Sam picked up a point on Erik by going 5/5 last week for a total of 17: Ohio State (4) Florida State (1) Oklahoma State (4) Oregon (4) and Notre Dame (4)

John is in third place with 13 points going 3/5 last week: Alabama (5) Boise St (2) Northwestern (2) Texas (2) and Florida Atlantic (2)

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