Northwestern continued their charitable efforts against the Big Ten's worst teams on Saturday by letting Indiana stick around until the very end of a 20-17 victory.  Luckily for all of humanity, the Wildcats' forfeiture of any and all garbage time opportunities did not keep Evan Watkins on the sideline.   Late in the game, Dan Persa was momentarily shaken up when he got kicked in the head on a scramble.  It was an honest mistake, we're sure, since DP7's head is roughly at kneec...

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This week's Player of the Week is Evan Watkins, because were Evan to line up in punt coverage prepared for a fake, he wouldn't suddenly decide to play the ball instead of the man or perhaps think for a half-second that maybe it isn't a fake or just hear someone call his name in the stands or find some other reason to turn his head for the half-second that it took for a wobbly duck pass to flop into the hands of the guy he was supposed to be covering.

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NU rebounded nicely from a soul-crushing home loss after the bye week with another soul-crushing home loss.   Wildcat QB Frodo Baggins returned to form after an off week, throwing his third pick of the season against the Spartans.  Unfortunately, you were unable to hear the calls for Evan Watkins to take over under center because pretty much everybody in the stadium was busy yelling "FAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE" when Michigan State lined up to punt.   Northwestern has two trademarks pe...

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This week's Player of the Week is Evan Watkins.  Because he didn't have anything to do with what happened in that game.  I mean, damn, ya'll.

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Northwestern overcame all the odds stacked in their favor to continue being a Northwestern football team, losing to Purdue's backup quarterback at home in a night game.   A quick perusal of the Internets shows no hits for "FuckYeahRobHenry.com", so we can only assume that the former Boilermaker benchwarmer is no demigod on par with our own WATKINS, so the only viable explanation has to be that Northwestern is, in fact, Northwestern, and that starting 6-0 may actually be prohibited by uns...

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This week's Player of the Week is Evan Watkins.  A Big Ten opener on the road was dangerous enough, but things got dicey during the week when Fitz called Minnesota the best team NU had faced all year (aka, eat a dick Vanderbilt, Illinois State, Rice and Central Michigan).  It was pretty clear that when push came to shove, Fitz might have trouble putting another nail in the coffin of his good friend, Gopher coach Tim Brewster.  That's where Evan took the lead. Look, Evan and Fit...

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Evan Watkins and a bunch of other guys improved their overall record to 5-0 and stand undefeated in the Big Ten after a big win in South Dakota's stadium on Saturday.  Oh wait, sorry, it's technically Minnesota's stadium but South Dakota just owns the place.   An auspicious performance by a certain overachieving munchkin (one interception is a mistake, two is the start of a trend) kept the game close until The Kicker took a break from trying to perfect the world's first lateral-movi...

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