Big-game atmosphere arrived at Wrigley Field on Saturday afternoon when Northwestern played host to Michigan in a Big Ten affair, complete with a big-game announcer in Fox Sports’ Gus Johnson.

Everything was in place for a great day of football, and perhaps an advertisement for a future bowl game at Wrigley Field, a long-held dream of Chicago Cubs owners.

The weather resembled a Cubs-Cardinals game in late May, with a game-time temperature of 64 degrees. The ivy was in its final stages, a few weeks past peak color, but still clinging to the outfield walls like the Wildcats’ clinging to their bowl hopes.

It was peak Wrigley and a chance for NU to snap its five-game losing streak at Clark and Addison streets in what could be its last game here for a while. The Wildcats are moving into the

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