EVANSTON, Ill. – Northwestern Football fans will have the opportunity to go behind closed doors and inside the Wildcats' quest for a 2016 Big Ten championship in The Foundation: Northwestern Football, debuting at 4:30 p.m. CT on Wednesday, August 31, on Comcast SportsNet Chicago.
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A production from the award-winning Studio N and the producer of 'The Hunt', The Foundation will provide fans with an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the 2016 Wildcats. The series will include never-before-seen access to practices, meetings, team travel and the lives of student-athletes off the field as Chicago's Big Ten Team progresses through the college football season.
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The first season of The Foundation was released in the spring of 2015 and chronicled Northwestern football's spring practice campaign. A second season of the series, Northwestern Basketball - Summer 2015, chronicled the Wildcats' men's basketball program as it went through workouts in June and July, and culminated with the team's foreign tour of Spain.
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Both seasons of The Foundation were named finalists for a College Sports Media Award for Outstanding Program Series, presented by Sports Video Group and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA).
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While previous seasons of the series were distributed exclusively online, each of the eight episodes of The Foundation: Northwestern Football will be a full half-hour show on Comcast SportsNet Chicago and also will be available via BTN2Go in addition to NUSports.com and on the Northwestern Athletics YouTube page.
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Coming off a school-record 10-win season in 2015, the Wildcats kick off the 2016 campaign when they host Western Michigan at Ryan Field Sept. 3.
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A production from the award-winning Studio N and the producer of 'The Hunt', The Foundation will provide fans with an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the 2016 Wildcats. The series will include never-before-seen access to practices, meetings, team travel and the lives of student-athletes off the field as Chicago's Big Ten Team progresses through the college football season.
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The first season of The Foundation was released in the spring of 2015 and chronicled Northwestern football's spring practice campaign. A second season of the series, Northwestern Basketball - Summer 2015, chronicled the Wildcats' men's basketball program as it went through workouts in June and July, and culminated with the team's foreign tour of Spain.
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Both seasons of The Foundation were named finalists for a College Sports Media Award for Outstanding Program Series, presented by Sports Video Group and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA).
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While previous seasons of the series were distributed exclusively online, each of the eight episodes of The Foundation: Northwestern Football will be a full half-hour show on Comcast SportsNet Chicago and also will be available via BTN2Go in addition to NUSports.com and on the Northwestern Athletics YouTube page.
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Coming off a school-record 10-win season in 2015, the Wildcats kick off the 2016 campaign when they host Western Michigan at Ryan Field Sept. 3.