Michigan football vs. Northwestern preview: Behind Enemy Lines
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Michigan football has exited its second bye week and sets its sights on the Northwestern Wildcats this weekend at Wrigley Field.
Gavin Dorsey, publisher and writer for Northwestern Roundtable, joins Behind Enemy Lines to preview the 'Cats. One win away from bowl eligibility, Northwestern has an improved offense and a typically stout defense. This episode breaks down the keys factors and key players as Michigan meets the Wildcats in The Friendly Confines.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of Behind Enemy Lines. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm your host, Alejandro Suniga, here from the Michigan Insider, Michigan.247Sports.com. |
| 0:09.0 | The Wolverines have exited their biweek and have their sights set on the northwestern Wildcats. |
| 0:14.1 | That'll be in 11.10 a.m. Central time, 12.10 p.m. Eastern kickoff from Wrigley Field on Saturday down in the Windy City. |
| 0:22.5 | Michigan is 7 and 2 has everything ahead of it as it begins the closing stretch to the regular |
| 0:28.6 | season, a college football playoff berth, potentially Big 10 championship game birth. |
| 0:33.9 | All of that is still on the table. |
| 0:36.5 | But the first test is Northwestern, which comes in with a much better offense than a season ago. |
| 0:42.3 | Couldn't be too much worse. |
| 0:44.3 | And a solid defense. |
| 0:45.3 | A lot to dive into with Northwestern. |
| 0:47.3 | So let's go ahead and go behind enemy lines, previewing the Wildcats. |
| 0:51.3 | Our guest for this week's episode of Behind Enemy Lines is Gavin Dorsey, publisher and writer |
| 0:55.8 | for Northwestern Roundtable, part of the Roundtable Sports Network. |
| 0:59.3 | Gavin, welcome to this show. |
| 1:00.5 | Let's dive into Northwestern, which enters this game at 5 and 4 overall, 3 in the Big |
| 1:04.7 | 10, wins over UCLA, looks better in hindsight, Penn State looks worse in hindsight and Purdue. |
| 1:17.7 | Losses at two lane to begin the season and then against kind of the upper echelon of the Big Ten, Oregon, USC, Nebraska. |
| 1:27.2 | Head coach is David Braun, who's in year two as permanent head coach, year three overall after taking over for Pat Fitzgerald during that hazing scandal back in 2023. The Wildcats are imminently bowl |
| 1:30.8 | eligible, but they've got a couple of games at Wrigley Field where they have never won before. |
| 1:36.4 | This is maybe the last couple opportunities to do so as the new Ryan Field is just about ready. |
| 1:42.7 | I'm really excited to go to Wrigley Field. |
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