Go, You Northwestern... Fight for Victory.

Looking forward:

"No longer might people think, "Northwestern? That team that took 50-plus years to win a bowl game?" Now, maybe it'll be, "Northwestern? That team that gave Ohio State all it could handle and deserves that No. 16 ranking?"

"We're close," Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said. "We're knocking on the door, we've just got to knock that bad boy down. And all of our goals are still ahead of us. I think we showed everybody in the conference and the country that this group of young men can play."
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"There's a team getting on the bus going back to Columbus that knows they just got by a pretty darn good football team," Fitzgerald said. "That's what I'll take from this game."

As was pretty evident from Fitzgerald's post game comments and those of his team, this game had no shortage of positives. And there's no reason to believe this wasn't the kind of statement this Northwestern team was looking to make.

The tests keep coming for Northwestern. The Cats go on the road next weekend to Wisconsin, a team that's suffered a pair of tough losses in its past three games and will be coming off a bye.

*Hat tip: Mom.