1998 Northwestern

• Biggest winBeat UNLV 41–⁠7Sep 5

  By 34 points, its widest win.

Date	Opponent	Result	Elo
Sep 5	vsUNLV	W 41–⁠7		78%
Sep 12	vsDuke	L 10–⁠44		77%
Sep 19	atRice	W 23–⁠14		34%
Sep 26	at14Wisconsin	L 7–⁠38		31%
Oct 3	vsIllinois	L 10–⁠13		80%
Oct 10	atIowa	L 24–⁠26		35%
Oct 17	vsMichigan	L 6–⁠12		28%
Oct 24	vs1Ohio State	L 10–⁠36		19%
Oct 31	atMichigan State	L 5–⁠29		26%
Nov 7	vsPurdue	L 21–⁠56		34%
Nov 14	at19Penn State	L 10–⁠41		14%
Nov 21	atHawai’i	W 47–⁠21		70%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

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Before 2004 our records hold honors and the draft; these are the players whose college years here, from their Wikipedia articles or their honors, include 1998.

From Wikipedia’s 1998 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP final
Wisconsin	7–⁠1	11–⁠1	6
Ohio State	7–⁠1	11–⁠1	2
Michigan	7–⁠1	10–⁠3	12
Purdue	6–⁠2	9–⁠4	24
Penn State	5–⁠3	9–⁠3	17
Michigan State	4–⁠4	6–⁠6
Minnesota	2–⁠6	5–⁠6
Indiana	2–⁠6	4–⁠7
Illinois	2–⁠6	3–⁠8
Iowa	2–⁠6	3–⁠8
Northwestern	0–⁠8	3–⁠9

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.