2022 Northwestern Wildcats football team
The 2022 Northwestern Wildcats football team will represent Northwestern University during the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wildcats will play their home games at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois, and compete as members of the Big Ten Conference. They will be led by head coach Pat Fitzgerald, in his seventeenth season. Schedule. Northwestern announced its 2022 football schedule on January 12, 2022. The 2022 schedule will consist of six home games and five away games, as well as a neutral-site game in the regular season. The Wildcats will host Big Ten  foes Wisconsin, Ohio State, and Illinois and will travel to Penn State, Maryland, Penn State, Iowa, Minnesota, and Purdue. They will play Nebraska at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. The Wildcats will host all of the three non-conference opponents, Duke from the ACC, Southern Illinois from Division I FCS and Miami (OH) from the MAC