The Northwestern Wildcat athletics twitter feed confirms what was reported earlier: the Wildcats are headed to Jacksonville for the TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl.
#Northwestern @nufbfamily is excited to accept a bid to play in the 2013 Taxslayer.com @gator_bowl. #B1GCats
— Northwestern Sports (@NU_Sports) December 2, 2012
With that becoming official, we should be all but official to head to the Gator Bowl ourselves. As of right now though, 3:20p.m., we still await official word on that though