Northwestern-illinois Clash Turned Into A Winter Wonderland

Saturday was a snowy time crossed nan Midwest, and assemblage shot fans tuning successful expecting flakes weren't disappointed. No. 1 Ohio State downed No. 15 Michigan 27–9 amid flurries, while Minnesota topped Wisconsin 17–7 successful arsenic wintry conditions.

Northwestern's yearly rivalry showdown pinch Illinois was thing other entirely. The Champaign-Urbana, Ill., area took a nonstop deed from nan strategy annoying overmuch of nan Great Lakes region, and suffered from precocious winds arsenic well.

The result: changeable aft changeable aft changeable of Memorial Stadium coated successful white. The snowfall altered some teams' crippled strategies and made for unthinkable photography and videography moreover earlier nan crippled started.

Here was nan Wildcats' position of nan powder.

Jeremy Werner of 247Sports shared this position an hr earlier kickoff.

Sideline views of nan title weren't overmuch clearer.

The autumn did not extremity Fighting Illini linebacker James Kreutz from warming up sans shirt.

Kaitlyn Jesmonth of WCIA-TV shared nan position from nan station's camera mounted connected nan stadium, which underlined nan conditions affecting nan full area.

Clearly, Champaign-Urbana residents' irritant was tv viewers' gain.

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