2026
Week 7
Northwestern Wildcats
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Main Poll Voters
| User | Rank | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Maladroit44 | 9 | The Big Ten, to my dismay and consternation, still has not amended their scheduling approach to enshrine Northwestern vs. Nebraska as an annual rivalry, and the two don't play this year. It's a real shame, because at least right now, it's looking like it would've been a real doozy of an NU-NU showdown—potentially the first with both teams ranked since the 2000 Alamo Bowl. Alas, it's not to be. |
| cvsprinter1 | 10 | 1-loss to Undefeated |
| TheZachster | 10 | |
| owlalwaysloveyew | 11 | |
| Striker743 | 11 | |
| Justanother_0 | 12 | The Wildcats take a trip to Oregon on Halloween. Win that game and they'll be in the hunt for the playoffs. |
| MainPeanut25 | 12 | |
| The-Gothic-Castle | 12 | |
| Bereft13 | 13 | Power: 10, SoR: 23; LW: 15 |
| frone | 13 | |
| GoBlueScrewOSU7 | 13 | |
| jrichardh | 13 | |
| jthomas694 | 13 | |
| OKgolfer | 13 | |
| ryseing | 13 | |
| srs_house | 13 | |
| Bank_Gothic | 14 | |
| MADBuc49 | 14 | +0 |
| Muffinnnnnnn | 14 | |
| redwave2505 | 14 | |
| retnuh101 | 14 | |
| SlaminSammons | 14 | |
| Blazeth | 15 | |
| CFBHurts | 15 | |
| Charlemagne42 | 15 | Adjustment: 0% |
| grtgbln | 15 | |
| Jay_Dubbbs | 15 | |
| jjjoebox | 15 | |
| OldCoaly | 15 | |
| Player_1_has_Joined | 15 | |
| Tarmacked | 15 | FPI and Sagarin have sunk a bit on them, partly because of the matchup this week. I think everyone else keeps making bigger arguments and Indiana has looked more shaky still, so their resume takes a hit. |
| twitter_paulbd | 15 | One-Loss P2 Loss was to #8 Indiana and schedule has been harder compared to Nebraska. |
| 52hoova | 16 | |
| AJ_CC | 16 | |
| ChBass | 16 | Stomping Ball State didn't teach us anything about Northwestern that we didn't already know, and the Penn State win is still worth something. They'll have a few weeks before things get real. |
| DarkLegend64 | 16 | |
| DarthYoda2594 | 16 | |
| Klaassy23 | 16 | |
| pileatedloon | 16 | |
| plannedsickdays | 16 | |
| RheagarTargaryen | 16 | |
| sirgippy | 16 | GippyRank expected rank: 12.0. Central 80% interval: 4–23. Top-25 probability: 92%. |
| sirvalkyerie | 16 | |
| spmartin1993 | 16 | |
| AlexanderComet | 17 | |
| bladefencer | 17 | 0.828, -1, Pow: 9, Off: 11, Def: 27, SOR: 23 |
| budget_um | 17 | Only loss is to Indiana. Ball State isn't much, but there was space in the poll this week. |
| ChaseTheFalcon | 17 | |
| Drexlore | 17 | |
| HieloLuz | 17 | Northwestern joins the rankings in part because week 6 is when I begin to consider FCS rankings, and South Dakota State being ranked #1 counts as a quality win. But it's all they have right now. Close loss to Indiana, but is hard to compare to others still. |
| nbingham196 | 17 | |
| noahthearc | 17 | |
| olmsted | 17 | |
| Sometimeswelose | 17 | |
| SpadeRyker | 17 | |
| ThaCarter | 17 | |
| bakonydraco | 18 | 83.883 |
| chillmagic420 | 18 | |
| corundum9 | 18 | |
| CRedds19 | 18 | |
| cyberchaox | 18 | 4-1, loss to #4 Indiana, win over #36 South Dakota State |
| daredassdude | 18 | |
| digdat0 | 18 | 18. Northwestern — Score: 0.166 | Results: 1.005, SOS Rank: #24, Quality: 0.037, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 0, Off Rk: #16, Def Rk: #15 |
| G-Aardvark | 18 | |
| IceColdDrPepper_Here | 18 | |
| jalexjsmithj | 18 | 17.8 |
| Luigiatl | 18 | |
| MahjongDaily | 18 | |
| r0sco | 18 | |
| Roscoe_Filburn | 18 | Let the record show that I am not a coward. |
| spsellers | 18 | |
| Terminal_BAS | 18 | |
| ToeInDigDeep | 18 | 4-1; loss to Indiana; win over Penn St., Colorado |
| UNC_Samurai | 18 | |
| Ch-i-ef | 19 | Okay maybe you guys are actually good |
| Chipsahoy523 | 19 | +4 |
| CommodoreN7 | 19 | |
| CPiGuy2728 | 19 | |
| douchebagjack | 19 | Best 3 Wins: Penn State, Colorado, Ball State. 1 Losses: Indiana. ball state more like balls in ya face. suck that wildcat dick bitch. i'd like one ticket on the bandwagon pls. tier 3b: 1-loss teams with a loss to a top team, but haven't beat anyone good yet. Iowa beat Michigan, most legit win besides oregon, lost to ohio st most legit loss. wake beat louisville, but lost to miami, etc etc indiana + michigan state > indiana + penn state > tulsa + oregon nebraska > northwestern > oklahoma state |
| frumious88 | 19 | |
| ikindalikelemons | 19 | |
| Noy_Telinu | 19 | Is NW good? No idea still. |
| PlactusTX | 19 | LW: NR | Tier 2 | W Ball State |
| Rakarei | 19 | |
| RollWarTideEagle | 19 | |
| SCsprinter13 | 19 | |
| texas2089 | 19 | |
| Tornadohunter24 | 19 | (NEW) |
| AllHawkeyesGoToHell | 20 | |
| AlphaH4wk | 20 | |
| arbadak | 20 | .755 rating, 4-1, SOS .560 (NEW, +7) |
| BearsAreGreat1 | 20 | |
| Buckeyes2010 | 20 | |
| Cars-and-Coffee | 20 | |
| ChemicalOle | 20 | |
| Chris-P-Creme | 20 | |
| chweris | 20 | |
| Euphoric_Relative_13 | 20 | |
| Helifino | 20 | |
| HideNZeke | 20 | |
| KansasEF5Tornado | 20 | |
| mcdsmaster8824 | 20 | |
| monkeymatt1836 | 20 | |
| penisthightrap_ | 20 | |
| SIMBONEGTP | 20 | |
| SufferingfOrLife | 20 | |
| T-Thugs | 20 | Northwestern is 4-1 with a win over Penn State (3-3). Also beat Colorado (2-3). Only loss is to Indiana. |
| tdeff19 | 20 | |
| TheReformedBadger | 20 | |
| visor841 | 20 | |
| bretticus733 | 21 | |
| CptCheese | 21 | |
| Dropbackandpunt | 21 | |
| hythloday1 | 21 | |
| JustinMSU21 | 21 | |
| justsaynotoreddit | 21 | |
| Lefunnymaymays4lief | 21 | (NR) Don’t look now, but the rest of this schedule outside of a trip to Columbus in November looks winnable. Hell I’d argue if that game was played in the new Ryan Field it could potentially have been maybe sort of winnable. I just think a playoff game at that venue in year 1 of it being open would be so sick even if they would inevitably move it to Soldier Field to sell more tickets |
| noodlethebear | 21 | |
| NyquillusDillwad20 | 21 | |
| sgtshenanigans | 21 | Northwestern beat Penn State but that's not the accolade people thought it was at the time. As of now the best result for Northwester is a close loss against Indiana which might also not be that great of an accolade I guess we will see. I'm ranking Northwestern here but I don't feel great about it. |
| sickmemes48 | 21 | |
| Staind075 | 21 | |
| SwissArmyScythe | 21 | +4 |
| TaylorLeprechaun | 21 | NR |
| TheUltimate721 | 21 | As good as I think Northwestern is so far, I think them getting ranked in the AP for beating Ball State while Nebraska is still unranked is pretty stupid. |
| thomasosu | 21 | |
| TimeBroken | 21 | |
| TolkienFan71 | 21 | |
| TopGoose | 21 | |
| vanburen1845 | 21 | |
| _fastball | 22 | |
| BosskOnASegway | 22 | 1749.7 -> 1756.6 [+6.9] (#17 -> #22) |
| Cecil_Hardboner | 22 | |
| Colton3690 | 22 | |
| Conglossian | 22 | -1 |
| Doogitywoogity | 22 | I might have NW too low. I’ll decide more next week when I have a better understanding of Indiana. Michigan state and Rutgers should be an easy back to back for nw coming up. |
| EpicSchwinn | 22 | |
| fredmerc111 | 22 | |
| fshi | 22 | |
| Hackasizlak | 22 | |
| luckroy | 22 | |
| Pure_Protein_Machine | 22 | |
| RiffRamBahZoo | 22 | |
| samspopguy | 22 | |
| Stoneador | 22 | 86 | 4 | 80 |
| studio_sally | 22 | |
| Techwid | 22 | |
| WarEagle9 | 22 | |
| Xy13 | 22 | |
| a_bit_of_a_misnomer_ | 23 | |
| Acm0028 | 23 | |
| bannista7 | 23 | |
| Bill3ffinMurray | 23 | |
| BlueSCar | 23 | |
| brucewaynewins | 23 | |
| Corgi_Koala | 23 | |
| cyclonepsycho | 23 | |
| dschinghiskhan | 23 | |
| elnino550 | 23 | |
| eSpiritCorpse | 23 | |
| GatorBolt | 23 | |
| GeauxTri | 23 | Strong win over Penn State; only loss came on the road at undefeated Indiana. |
| HelioOne | 23 | |
| Jakesnake42 | 23 | Huh? Did not expect to see you here this season. Revenge game against old coach next week. Last Week: NR |
| JBonkies | 23 | |
| jmac_21 | 23 | |
| joebob431 | 23 | |
| Keener1899 | 23 | |
| mthompson2320 | 23 | LW: 19 |
| Our-Gardian-Angel | 23 | |
| owl_man | 23 | |
| PeteyNice | 23 | |
| placid_salad | 23 | LW: #24 |
| Polarbear1914 | 23 | |
| RedBarracuda25 | 23 | |
| RegionalBias | 23 | |
| soonerfreak | 23 | |
| sroach91 | 23 | |
| velociraptorfarmer | 23 | |
| Wescat | 23 | |
| ALStark69 | 24 | +1; I love having them ranked instead of LSU lol New to poll: 16 Kentucky, 18 Arizona, 20 Houston, 23 USC, 25 Wisconsin |
| BallSoHerd | 24 | |
| BananaBouquet | 24 | |
| bernkastel87 | 24 | |
| BorisNumber1 | 24 | |
| boxbeat | 24 | |
| CambodianDrywall | 24 | |
| ch1l1_ch33s3 | 24 | |
| DavoinShower-handle | 24 | |
| deadtofall12 | 24 | |
| diehardcubforever | 24 | |
| Fmeson | 24 | |
| GenialGiant | 24 | |
| grey_pilgrim_ | 24 | |
| hascogrande | 24 | |
| IAmAChemicalEngineer | 24 | |
| infinitempg | 24 | 0.782, +15 |
| JamoRedhead | 24 | |
| jonstark19 | 24 | |
| kflinderman | 24 | |
| Lex_Ludorum | 24 | |
| ManiacalBlazer | 24 | 72.656, (4-1). Indiana result manages to work in their favor. Other results are decent enough so far. |
| mellolizard | 24 | |
| nin478 | 24 | |
| one98d | 24 | |
| PattyKane16 | 24 | |
| PSUMediaPA | 24 | |
| Pyromania1983 | 24 | |
| romulusjsp | 24 | |
| SteemieRayVaughn | 24 | |
| strikersteve60 | 24 | |
| TDenverFan | 24 | |
| Texasagsman | 24 | |
| TheNSAAgent777 | 24 | |
| Zef_Apollo | 24 | |
| Zloggt | 24 | Fine...I need to face the music, swallow my pride, and accept that Northwestern is better...again... |
| Blooblod | 25 | |
| cinciforthewin | 25 | |
| Daigotsu | 25 | |
| dubscurry30 | 25 | NR |
| e8odie | 25 | |
| ewolfy13 | 25 | |
| ExternalTangents | 25 | Overall +15.2; offense +7.9 (25th), defense -7.3 (23rd) |
| flyingcircusdog | 25 | |
| galacticdude7 | 25 | Predicted Record: 8-4 Losses: at Indiana (23-29), at Oregon, Iowa, at Ohio State Comment: Welcome to the 25th slot in my ballot, where I could realistically rank at least a half dozen teams right now, so I'm just going to advocate for a team I like. |
| grjohnst | 25 | |
| Jerrywelfare | 25 | |
| JustAManAndHisLaptop | 25 | |
| KJdkaslknv | 25 | |
| manbeardawg | 25 | |
| nemoran | 25 | |
| nw____ | 25 | Chip is having so much fun |
| Pikachu1989 | 25 | |
| royrules22 | 25 | |
| TossedRightOut | 25 | |
| udderlymoovelous | 25 |
Provisional Poll Voters
| User | Rank | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| josh55134 | 10 | |
| DownshiftGD | 11 | |
| IWieldTheFlameOfAnor | 11 | 263 |
| meta_irl | 12 | |
| Protoco2 | 12 | |
| 666PeaceKeepaGirl | 13 | |
| DarthGlazer | 13 | they haven't played anybody except for indiana. I think they're very very good though. |
| drewscottt | 13 | -4 |
| grahamca | 13 | T27ᵗʰ W/L, T11ᵗʰ Predicted Wins, 6ᵗʰ Team Strength, 13ᵗʰ Quality of Wins |
| JackWK_Gaming | 13 | |
| Fluid_Theory_6587 | 14 | |
| fm22fnam | 14 | +2 |
| Scottyfer | 14 | |
| thehornedlamb | 14 | |
| AMETSFAN | 15 | |
| jibberishdhyukl | 15 | |
| LightningDusty | 15 | ↑3 |
| NNul | 15 | Blowing out everyone they met, except for Ind who they hung around with. |
| ResearchFlaky5912 | 15 | Another underwhelming performance in this range of teams, but not enough to knock them down. Their best win also looks shaky (Penn St is 0-3 in the Big 10). |
| bryophyta_insolitam | 16 | |
| isrealball | 16 | |
| Klightgrove | 16 | |
| MyAngelMiraidon | 16 | +3 - 3 teams closely in front of them lost, thus they go up 3 |
| Nath0leon | 16 | +1. Glad the AP Poll finally ranked them, but it's still too low. |
| NoOutdoorSoup | 16 | |
| Select-Edge-3262 | 16 | +8 |
| Star_Wars_Sith | 16 | |
| ChiTrojan2 | 17 | |
| gohncell | 17 | |
| Hastronaut | 17 | |
| Salmon-Dude | 17 | |
| Scruggerboy | 17 | |
| sportstrap | 17 | |
| thatoneguyD13 | 17 | Tier 4. |
| Yelich04 | 17 | - |
| CALL_ME_ISHMAEBY | 18 | |
| geordieColt88 | 18 | |
| Isthmus11 | 18 | 4-1, dismembered a not very good Ball State team this week which does not really add much as a data point but I still think this team is better than a lot of people give them credit for. An offense of smarter than average P4 players with Chip Kelly as OC makes for a very fun gameplan to watch play out. I think this team is going to have a pretty clear identity on being good enough to simply outsmart a lot of opponents offensively |
| Mossed26 | 18 | |
| n8TLfan | 18 | |
| pongislame | 18 | |
| S2OP | 18 | (+2) |
| Applesaucemannus | 19 | Killing people. Killed PSU tested IND. |
| DillyDillySzn | 19 | |
| dstrainr | 19 | |
| Esb5415 | 19 | |
| GrimmacingGrinny | 19 | |
| ninjatown23 | 19 | Duke, Florida, LSU, and Oregon losses move them up in my rankings. They continue to play good football. |
| OG_Felwinter | 19 | |
| Piptit | 19 | |
| Pyroblockx | 19 | |
| Rishik01 | 19 | |
| Sflabuckeye13 | 19 | |
| ArlyntheAwesome | 20 | |
| d1sportsball | 20 | Northwestern is a lot like Nebraska, but their loss to IU wasn't as close. That's really the only thing separating these two. |
| Dawg-Bite | 20 | |
| FuzzyDunlop911 | 20 | |
| GDSamstag | 20 | |
| HHunko13 | 20 | |
| Menktenk | 20 | |
| myworld3 | 20 | |
| ndbfsu22 | 20 | |
| Ok_Significance_3803 | 20 | |
| SaguaroCactus19 | 20 | |
| saquad69 | 20 | |
| Yamiosum | 20 | |
| bigred91224 | 21 | |
| FoodCourtDruid | 21 | |
| National-Sundae9427 | 21 | That performance against Indiana is showing to be good, even with the loss. |
| Original_Profile8600 | 21 | |
| RJTrey | 21 | |
| SomerandomIDFBfan | 21 | |
| bocnj | 22 | |
| divey043 | 22 | |
| ianmcmoney | 22 | 84.84% |
| Intelligent_Fix_6972 | 22 | |
| Living_Human | 22 | 67.71 |
| NebraskaPlainsman | 22 | |
| newSomberMan | 22 | |
| SpectralHydra | 22 | |
| SportsCat4 | 22 | |
| tbraptors | 22 | |
| TheBeekman8 | 22 | |
| 2AcesRoth | 23 | net elo off def ridge fei conf +11.7 +12.7 33.2 20.5 +10.3 +12.2 Big Ten |
| _THE__BOULDER_ | 23 | I've been saying it for a bit this year - they put up a great fight against Indiana, for example - but I think Northwestern might just be kinda good. They are now 4-1 with a game against Sparty, they have scored at least 30 points in every game BUT the Indiana game. Granted, Ball St this past weekend was nothing to write home about, but I don't see why Northwestern can't challenge for somewhere between 3-5 in the B1G this year. They may fall short, but they can challenge for it with how they've been playing. |
| AoA_nB1 | 23 | Chiles is good? |
| BoilerUp28 | 23 | |
| FrontRunner51 | 23 | (-5) Win over PSU looking worse. |
| gonshpreds1 | 23 | |
| hbh110 | 23 | |
| jackmc04 | 23 | (NR) |
| jmdinbtr | 23 | |
| jwrtf | 23 | |
| kennethbring | 23 | |
| KevinDoesSports | 23 | (As a Penn State fan) I love this team right now. Almost beat Indiana, destroyed Penn State, Northwestern looks legit. |
| LegendParkour | 23 | |
| loneSTAR_06 | 23 | |
| m3owzika | 23 | |
| manbeqrpig | 23 | |
| PsychologicalFox8660 | 23 | |
| Repulsive_Rub6443 | 23 | |
| SonOfGarry | 23 | |
| spaceblev11 | 23 | |
| WBLwiffleball | 23 | |
| wittingtarsier | 23 | |
| 70277027 | 24 | |
| beckett929 | 24 | |
| Blazemaster77 | 24 | |
| dee3Poh | 24 | .070 |
| Effective-Lead-6657 | 24 | (18) Play a real team please. Ball State doesn't count. |
| Express_Dinner7918 | 24 | Kinda here by default. Next 5 up: USC SMU Nebraska Wisconsin Florida |
| idnttcrisis | 24 | |
| jtchr33 | 24 | Thank you for ranking them, they deserve it so far. Can certainly surprise a top big 10 team. |
| maxwell6233 | 24 | |
| NC_Pineapple | 24 | |
| Nervous_Metal_9445 | 24 | Indiana > Northwestern |
| NonZero-Chance | 24 | |
| Ok_Boysenberry716 | 24 | |
| PrideSax711 | 24 | |
| RowDull8230 | 24 | |
| Spazzatack | 24 | |
| alexjcode_com | 25 | 713 |
| BeyondLiesTheWub | 25 | added in to replace Penn State (#23) |
| chief_sitass | 25 | |
| FindGreatness23 | 25 | |
| g_trechel | 25 | |
| JJones927 | 25 | |
| jtsmd2 | 25 | |
| leadbymight | 25 | |
| LegionMammal978 | 25 | (+5) GS .850, TS −13. |
| Lucaball3r | 25 | |
| mathwrath55 | 25 | Should've been ranked for a while now in my opinion, if your only loss is by 1 score at the defending national champion you can't be that bad. Would probably be higher if Penn State hadn't lost. I similarly feel like Nebraska should be ranked (Nebraska is predictive #14) but other than IU they really haven't played anyone, so they fall at #26. |
| PersianGuitarist | 25 |
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