Illini under pressure, look for first win

"I have to admit, I was forced to turn the darn (game) off," Dick Butkus told ESPN.com. "Maybe I'm getting too hasty with it, but you cannot, you cannot avoid seeing the lack of effort."

Zook said he and his team are embarrassed by the Missouri loss. The criticism, he said, naturally follows the success Illinois had two seasons ago, when they were 9-3 and in the Rose Bowl. The team followed that up with a 5-7 record last season that left coach and team under pressure to improve.

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