When playing a higher-ranked team, the courteous Wildcats of Northwestern have adopted the custom of allowing them to lead for a significant portion of the game, out of respect for the awesome wisdom of the current BCS ranking system.
They behaved no differently today (consistency is a mark of the highest character), allowing Iowa to take control of the game for much of the second half before putting two touchdowns on the board to take a 21-17 lead and defeat Iowa for the fifth time in the last six games.
The representatives of right and virtue will travel to Wrigley Field Saturday to face the forces of darkness represented by the Illini of the University of Illinois. Wildcat quarterback Sam Persa injured his Achilles tendon during the Iowa game and is out for the season, meaning that the gathered minions of evil from Champaign-Urbana have a slightly better chance of achieving one of the temporary wins ill sometimes holds over good. People of good will are urged not to make too much of this possibility, or of a defeat should it happen -- Illini, victorious or not, remain the very face of evil on this earth.
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