Northwestern ends bowl losing skid, defeats Mississippi State
(MCT) — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — They handed out Gator Bowl baseball caps that said “CHAMPIONS,” and Northwestern players threw them on and sprinted toward the purple mob at a corner of EverBank Field.
Jerry Brown, Northwestern’s longest-tenured coach and a link to Wildcat teams from the late 1960s, bear-hugged Pat Fitzgerald’s wife, Stacy.
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