... all. He grew up in Florida in a family that was passionate about sports, but that fervor turned him off entirely.

After I returned from Champaign Saturday night, I sat down to watch Pittsburgh beat Notre Dame.

He entered the living room a little later.

"I really hope we can go to a bowl game in Orlando," he told me.

I nearly fell out of my chair.

It may have taken back-to-back road wins over Iowa and Illinois, but Northwestern football fever is sweeping through our campus.

Even the die-hard fans were jumping off the bandwagon after the Wildcats suffered back-to-back defeats at the hands of Syracuse and Minnesota.

The mood was so bad, I had to write an article Bleacher Report - College Football