It’s a noon kickoff today at the Big House as Michigan hosts Northwestern. The Wolverines and visiting Wildcats both need to win if they want to stay in the hunt for the Big Ten’s Legends Division title. Surprising Northwestern is 24th in the BCS standings and coming off a bye week while Michigan hopes to follow up on its 35-to-13 win last week at Minnesota. Meanwhile, it’s a bye week for Michigan State with the Spartans returning to action a week from today at home against Northwestern. It’s a road game this afternoon for Western Michigan with a 3:30 start at Buffalo. And number-4 Notre Dame hopes to avoid the upset bug and improve to 10-and-0 tonight when they play at Boston College. .