Scout's 2011 Illinois football preview

When your road trips are Indiana, Purdue, Penn State and Minnesota, the schedule isn't all that bad. The Illini have no excuse whatsoever to not start out hot with five straight home games and six in the first seven. The one road game before October 22nd is at Indiana, and while that's followed up by a home date with Ohio State and Arizona State will be a nasty early test, 5-2 is a must and 6-1 is possible before going on the road to face Purdue, There are only four road games overall and there's a well-timed November off week before facing Michigan and Wisconsin in back to back weeks. The non-conference schedule, other than the date with the Sun Devils, shouldn't be bad even though Western Michigan will be a sneaky-good MAC team.

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