College Football
Northwestern Wildcats football
Across 42 Wildcats football games in our records, see how results change by season, which opponents appear most often, and which final-score digits are most common.
Season-by-season results
The Northwestern Wildcats finished above .500 in three of the four seasons in our records.
Each row shows the season's record, its result sequence (green is a win, red is a loss), and points per game, newest first.
2026 3-1 4 games 33.0 Pts/game
2025 7-6 13 games 23.4 Pts/game
2024 4-8 12 games 17.8 Pts/game
2023 8-5 13 games 22.1 Pts/game
Game records begin in 2023; final-score digit tracking begins with the 2024 season.
Final-score digit patterns
3 and 4 are tied for most common: 5 of 28 finals each.
Each tracked final contributes one digit: the last digit of the team's score. Across the 28 finals our digit records cover, 3 and 4 each landed five times and nothing else got there.
1 0
3 1
4 2
5 3
5 4
1 5
2 6
4 7
2 8
1 9
Drawn from 2024–26, the three seasons our digit records cover, 28 games.
Opponent records 
Boilermakers 3-0 
Nittany Lions 2-1 
Fighting Illini 1-2 
Terrapins 2-0 
Golden Gophers 2-0 
Badgers 1-1 
Blue Devils 0-2 
Hoosiers 0-2
Twenty-eight opponents, most-played first.
The table covers 28 opponents since 2023, ordered by meetings. Each bar shows the Northwestern Wildcats' win rate in that series; each row opens the full head-to-head.
Boilermakers 3-0 Nittany Lions 2-1 Fighting Illini 1-2 Terrapins 2-0 Golden Gophers 2-0 Badgers 1-1 Blue Devils 0-2 Hoosiers 0-2 Twenty more opponents in our records. Every series has a head-to-head page, however short it runs.
This week
They play Saturday.
Week 6 Wildcats vs Ball State Cardinals
Sat, Oct 10 · 9:30 AM PDT
Wildcats vs Ball State Cardinals Sat, Oct 10 · 9:30 AM PDT