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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/IndianKingCobra on 2025-09-29 05:02:28+00:00.
By Raj Chavda
Photos from Northwestern University Wildcats 17-14 win over University of California Los Angeles Bruins at Martin Stadium in Evanston, IL
Evanston, IL - UCLA Bruins come into Evanston as their first B10 conference game of the 2025 season with an 0-3 record overall. Wildcats are only slightly better than Bruins with a 1-2 record (the win coming off Western Illinois). For regular fan of CFB, this was a game of equal teams and one team was going to win. The only thing that would prevent that would a be rogue wave off Lake Michigan washes the game out, else one team was going to get a countable win.
Slow game, each team didn’t look like they wanted to take this game away from there other during the first quarter. Eventually the Wildcats woke up and told themselves we are the better program. They put up 14 points in the 2nd quarter with ease. They were sitting pretty with a 17-3 lead going into the half. They should have coasted to an easy win. 3rd quarter was more of the same of the 1st quarter. Effort with no payoff from both teams. Three points put up by Bruins was the only score of the quarter.
This wasn’t a defensive battle nor was this a struggling offenseses. Each team was able to move the ball at times and other times just couldn’t get things going consistently. They just couldn’t keep things sustained or finish at times. With the 4th quarter staring the Wildcats didn’t want to make this an easy victory. They let the Burins score their only touchdown of the game on a 29yard pass to Kwazi Gilmer from Nico Iamaleava just past midway thru the quarter. Wildcats lead was cut down to 3pts.
For a program like the Bruins that have been struggling, they made the Wildcats sweat thru the 4th quarter. If the Wildcats and the Bruins let us to believe that they are the teams we think they should be, then this game exactly reflected it. Wildcats showed they were the better team in the 2nd quarter but left it at that didn’t continue that dominance the other 3 quarters. In the end thats all they needed against a struggling program. Against better program it won’t be enough for the Wildcats. Bruins need to do something more than just fire DeShaun Foster to right this ship else they will remain at the bottom of the B10 barrel.
Northwestern hosts LA-Monroe at Martin Stadium in Evanston next week October 4th, 2025. UCLA hosts Penn State that same Saturday. With Penn State just barely losing to Oregon, they will be looking to make a statement against UCLA.