By Teddy Greenstein Tribune reporter
October 27, 2009
Pat Fitzgerald is fond of saying that when a Northwestern player gets hurt, his backup must "pick up the flag."
It's a trademark Fitzism, along with "more weight on the bar" (added importance as the season progresses), "flush it" (move on) and the self-explanatory "it hasn't been a yellow-brick road."
No, it has been as smooth as a dirt road for the Wildcats, who had to rally from 18 down at
Purdue and 25 down
against Indiana to earn their two Big Ten victories.
And they'll need four-wheel drive to notch conference win No. 3 on Saturday.
Penn State is coming to town, and if you glanced at the Big Ten statistics, you'd swear the
Nittany Lions are the greatest team in the Midwest.
Powerful Penn State certain to test banged up Northwestern secondary
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