2008 Northwestern Wildcats football team

2008 Northwestern Wildcats football
Alamo Bowl, L 23–30 OT vs. Missouri
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Record9–4 (5–3 Big Ten)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorMick McCall (1st season)
Offensive schemeSpread
Defensive coordinatorMike Hankwitz (1st season)
Base defenseMultiple 4–3
Captains
  • C.J. Bachér[1]
  • Prince Kwateng
  • Eric Peterman
  • Brendan Smith
Home stadiumRyan Field
Seasons
← 2007
2009 →
2008 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 8 Penn State $+   7 1     11 2  
No. 9 Ohio State %+   7 1     10 3  
No. 24 Michigan State   6 2     9 4  
Northwestern   5 3     9 4  
No. 20 Iowa   5 3     9 4  
Wisconsin   3 5     7 6  
Minnesota   3 5     7 6  
Illinois   3 5     5 7  
Purdue   2 6     4 8  
Michigan   2 6     3 9  
Indiana   1 7     3 9  
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • % – BCS at-large representative
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2008 Northwestern Wildcats football team represented Northwestern University in the Big Ten Conference during the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Pat Fitzgerald, in his third season at Northwestern, was the team's head coach. The Wildcats played their homes games at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois.

  1. ^ "Year-by-Year Results" (PDF). 2018. p. 93. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 16, 2019. Retrieved March 14, 2019.