I'll settle for 60,000!
Illinois 26, Minnesota 14 Postgame
Yes, he played.
MoCoMdIllini
- Montgomery County, Maryland
So here we are 7 weeks into the season, with the same record as Alabama.
I never guessed that this could be a year like that.
I never guessed that this could be a year like that.
That will never happen. Never underestimate the creativity of Negative Nelly.”Inside every silver lining, there’s a dark cloud.”
I believe those quotes about the lack of O-Line recruits were presented at the time (and in your post) without context of the question being answered.
If memory serves, he was asked a specific question about the future of the roster and said that was something they’d have to address in the off season. It was in no way presented as an excuse for getting beat by Wisconsin or the poor results. The “earthquake” was people taking his comments out of context and he addressed it with the team.
Tony Eason, Jason Verduzco, and Nate Schellhause were all 65% or better in a season, but DeVito is tops in completion % to date. No Illini connected for over 50% until the 70s
I refuse to believe that number. It was both fuller and louder in the stadium today. Could have just been there was more to cheer about this game though. Hard to get super hyped in a 9-6 score
.But seriously, it looked WAY better in person this week than last.
There is no one. DiVito is currently at 70.41%. School record for a season is 66.74% by Scheelhaase.
MustangWally
- Mayfield
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
the giddy up in my step these past 5 weeks on Saturday afternoons or nights is WAY WAY better than previous autumnsYou too?
sacraig
- The desert
That's probably why DIA has had no problem reducing capacity with several of their renovations.
I told my son that I thought they would use Ibrahim more.
I was hoping this would show up. Now to share it with everyone I know to let them know that Bielema Really Gets It. And if you were there and rushed to the exit to go…where?…and missed it, missed singing the Alma Mater with the team, and having Bret talking to you personally, then that’s on you.
For those of us who waited, it was awesome.
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
it made ZERO sense they didn’t go to him 100% of the time once Morgan was knocked outta the game .
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
I didn’t understand that today. Where I was, people left after the last interception. Why leave with 1:30 left?
Anyway, I LOVED BB speaking to the fans. The man gets it on such a massive level.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Chase Brown leads Illinois to 26-14 win over Minnesota
Chase Brown had 233 total yards while Illinois won to put itself in a two-way tie for first in the Big Ten West.
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CHAMPAIGN — Like he has all season, Chase Brown carried the load for the Illinois offense.
Brown finished with 233 total yards on the day, and Illinois rode him for 41 carries and 180 rushing yards in a 26-14 win over Minnesota that made the Illini bowl eligible for the first time since 2019 and kept them in a tie for first in the Big Ten West.
“I’m extremely proud of him,” Lineman Alex Palczewski said. “The entire offensive line being able to block for him, we know that if we’re able to just do our job and get him on the safety he’s going to make something special happen.”
Brown was the focal point of an offense that had 472 yards against a defense that entered the day second in the country in points allowed and first in total defense. Brown opened the scoring with a 40-yard touchdown catch on a wheel route from Tommy DeVito.
Brown has 1,059 yards this season. He’s the fastest Illini to get to 1,000 rushing yards in a season and has now climbed to No. 6 on the Illinois career rushing yards leaderboard.
Illinois opened the scoring with a nine-play 75-yard drive that ended with DeVito finding Brown for a score to put the Illini up 7-0 with 10:56 left in the first.
DeVito started the game by completing his first nine passes and finished 25 for 32 for 252 yards and a touchdown in a return after leaving last week’s game against Iowa with an ankle injury.
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Such a solid dominating performance by the beloved.......The stats were overwhelmingly in the illini's favor , but the major stat was the 26-14 final score ...
Rest up , heal up and be ready to detassle the jerkers...........6-1 sounds awesome , but 7-1 with a fully recovered squad sounds so much better..............
LET'S GO ILLINI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hot take: he'll get a shot with a pro team. His instincts and decision making are exceptional. Some pro teams may look solely at physical measureables, but he seems to have "it."
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
I was around for '83, '89, '90, and '01. In each of those seasons it was clear by the first weekend in October that the team had something special. '07 was nice but had some October stumbles (Michigan, Iowa.) And '11, of course, went from 6-0 to a dumpster fire by early November (the sword of Damocles always seemed to be hanging over the Zooker's teams.)
I don't know if I'm just getting old and grumpy, but since the Indinia game I keep telling myself that this team is overachieving and isn't comparable to those earlier teams. Then Wisconsin raised my eyebrows. And Iowa was a rock fight gut check. All the while I kept telling myself that if they handled Minnesota in mid-October I'd feel differently.
And I do. There's something happening here, as Stephen Stills once sang. But what it is ain't exactly clear / There's Chase Brown and our D with a gun over there / Tellin' me (and opponents) that we got to beware.
Here are the best Illini starts since the epic 1963 season Rose Bowl champions:
1963: 5-0-1
1982: 5-2
1983: 10-1
1989: 7-1
1990: 6-1
2001: 10-1
2011: 6-1
2022: 6-1
This fall is tied with 2011 and 1990 for the third best start in 59 seasons since the '63 team. If the boys win in Lincoln in two weeks they'll be tied with '89 for the second best start.
Third best. Maybe, two weeks from now, second best. 59 seasons. I'm 56. I can't get my head around this.
There's something happening here.
I don't know if I'm just getting old and grumpy, but since the Indinia game I keep telling myself that this team is overachieving and isn't comparable to those earlier teams. Then Wisconsin raised my eyebrows. And Iowa was a rock fight gut check. All the while I kept telling myself that if they handled Minnesota in mid-October I'd feel differently.
And I do. There's something happening here, as Stephen Stills once sang. But what it is ain't exactly clear / There's Chase Brown and our D with a gun over there / Tellin' me (and opponents) that we got to beware.
Here are the best Illini starts since the epic 1963 season Rose Bowl champions:
1963: 5-0-1
1982: 5-2
1983: 10-1
1989: 7-1
1990: 6-1
2001: 10-1
2011: 6-1
2022: 6-1
This fall is tied with 2011 and 1990 for the third best start in 59 seasons since the '63 team. If the boys win in Lincoln in two weeks they'll be tied with '89 for the second best start.
Third best. Maybe, two weeks from now, second best. 59 seasons. I'm 56. I can't get my head around this.
There's something happening here.
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