Northwestern quarterback Clayton Thorson rolled right near the goal line. Superback Cameron Green ran with him, wide open in the end zone. Easy touchdown. Just like that, the upstart Wildcats trailed mighty Ohio State by a tantalizingly close score of 24-21 in the third quarter of last December’s Big Ten championship game. The Buckeyes took control from there, but it’s still remarkable what the Wildcats accomplished in getting to Indianapolis. They swept the West division, part of a 15-1 stretch in league games, dating to 2017, that few could have imagined. To coach Pat Fitzgerald, it felt less like the culmination of the program’s success and more like the start of something really big. “I have 100 percent confidence that this is going to become a consistent theme of our program,” he said heading into that game. “I look at us as a program that has been built on bedrock,…
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