Illinois 38, Rutgers 31 Postgame

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PNWIllini
BretMyBeachHouse said:
With this game and the Michigan game I think this season really climbs up the list of best and most of my lifetime.

It's funny that the Mackovic years, for all the success, just never seem to feel as good as the Bielema years.
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Late August 1989, opening game of the year, Illinois at USC on national television ESPN.

USC up 13-0 midway through the 4th, USC players with their helmets off standing around on the sidelines, game already over in their minds.

I’m at friends apartment with the muggy night the doors are all open to let in some air and so on campus (stoughton and goodwin) I can hear apartments all over Engineering campus going increasingly loud as the Illini and Jeff George start their comeback, 14 unanswered points and win at USC. Launching the season under Mackovic that ended with the Citrus Bowl win over Virginia for a 10 win season.

The whole town sounded like it was cheering as the USC ended. Yells of ILL INI for dozens of minutes after.

Will today be as memorable? Maybe for kids on campus today it will, like this season hopefully will be. For me 89-90 for both football and basketball were still it.
 
#153      
TheChief4Life
Oracle21 said:
It wouldn’t be Missouri.

Alabama
Ole Miss
Georgia
Texas
Tenn
Indiana
Ohio State
Penn State
Oregon
ACC Winner
Big 12 Winner
Best team of outside Power Conf

Illinois isn’t making it over any of those 12 teams even if ND lost to Army
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But you said "any". And, there's is a chance (not huge, but very real) that a Big 12 team doesn't even make it to the playoffs if Army wins out, Boise St. wins out and there's even the slightest hiccup in the Big 12.

I think there's more play in the CFP standings/final results than some are realizing. Of course, a ND beat down of Army ends that argument. There's still 3 (4?) teams in the Big 12 that can win a spot with an 11-2 record, which would end that argument (but it is still possible your Big 12 champ has FOUR losses). Etc Etc....

We'll know more by the end of today, obviously, but if you're wanting chaos, root for the following today at least:
Arizona St over BYU (Arizona St currently winning 21-0)
Kansas over Colorado (Kansas currently winning 17-7)
Utah over Iowa State
Army over Notre Dame
Cincinnati over Kansas State
Boise St over Wyoming

Next Week
Illinois over Northwestern
Oklahoma St over Colorado
Houston over BYU
Arizona over Arizona St.
Kansas State over Iowa State
Tulane over Memphis
Boise St over Oregon St
Army over UTSA
USC over Notre Dame

Championship Week
Army over Tulane
Boise St over whoever
Worst Big 12 team

That would almost guarantee no Big 12 or Notre Dame in the playoffs, and Illinois would have to be in the discussion. This doesn't even factor in the things that we want Indiana to do/not do or the SEC.

Anyway, you get the picture.
 
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BretMyBeachHouse
PNWIllini said:
Late August 1989, opening game of the year, Illinois at USC on national television ESPN.

USC up 13-0 midway through the 4th, USC players with their helmets off standing around on the sidelines, game already over in their minds.

I’m at friends apartment with the muggy night the doors are all open to let in some air and so on campus (stoughton and goodwin) I can hear apartments all over Engineering campus going increasingly loud as the Illini and Jeff George start their comeback, 14 unanswered points and win at USC. Launching the season under Mackovic that ended with the Citrus Bowl win over Virginia for a 10 win season.

The whole town sounded like it was cheering as the USC ended. Yells of ILL INI for dozens of minutes after.

Will today be as memorable? Maybe for kids on campus today it will, like this season hopefully will be. For me 89-90 for both football and basketball were still it.
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Actually, I was thinking of that usc game. Definitely the most memorable and notable of those years in my opinion. But I think we're stacking up many more now.
 
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MainelyIllini
Illiniguy74 said:
This play reminds me so much of the Rooks around right end against Ohio State in 1983. Play happened right in front of me. Trudeau hands offf to Rooks who quickly gets to the second level. I start yelling score! SCORE!!! SCORE!!!! He evades a potential tackler and finds the endzone. I'm yelling OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!!!!. Stadium is going NUTS!!!! OMG!!!!!! I'm getting light headed from the exhilaration. The greatest memory of my 63 years as an Illini fan. Today's experience is right up there with it including the same yelling.
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That was my first Illini football game I ever attended. I was in the NEZ stands for it. And remember clearly helping to tear down the goalposts. Thanks for the memory!
 
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#160      
MoCoMdIllini
PNWIllini said:
Late August 1989, opening game of the year, Illinois at USC on national television ESPN.

USC up 13-0 midway through the 4th, USC players with their helmets off standing around on the sidelines, game already over in their minds.

I’m at friends apartment with the muggy night the doors are all open to let in some air and so on campus (stoughton and goodwin) I can hear apartments all over Engineering campus going increasingly loud as the Illini and Jeff George start their comeback, 14 unanswered points and win at USC. Launching the season under Mackovic that ended with the Citrus Bowl win over Virginia for a 10 win season.

The whole town sounded like it was cheering as the USC ended. Yells of ILL INI for dozens of minutes after.

Will today be as memorable? Maybe for kids on campus today it will, like this season hopefully will be. For me 89-90 for both football and basketball were still it.
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We were packed into my dorm room (OG 7) for that game that would have been the Glasnost Bowl in St. Petersburg. (Was it St. Petersburg at that point, or were they still calling it "Leningrad" in 1989?)
 
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ChiefGritty
TheChief4Life said:
And, there's is a chance (not huge, but very real) that a Big 12 team doesn't even make it to the playoffs if Army wins out, Boise St. wins out and there's even the slightest hiccup in the Big 12.
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That's unlikely, and EVEN THEN we're still behind so many teams.

Make your 5 auto bids Oregon, Texas, Miami, Army, Boise State, and assume implosion in the Big 12.

You still have only 7 bids to give out to Ohio State, Indiana, Penn State, SMU, Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, that's 8 and we're not even in the argument with any of those teams, let alone the zillion 9-3 teams with better wins than us.

It's just not happening.
 
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Oracle21
eas23 said:
Savor the win, but per my post above, we've actually had quite a few of these recently. Michigan State 2019, the 6 ot Penn State game, 4th and long to beat Toledo last year, the John Paddock era, and even throw in Purdue this year after blowing the lead.

Finally, at long last, its a good time to be an Illinois football fan again.
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Illinois is 8-3 this year.
Of those 11 games, we’ve trailed in the 4th Q in 7 of them. I’d say we’ve def maximized the amount of wins we’ve gotten this year given all the games we’ve been behind in. 2 OT wins this year, and this game, and Kansas was pulled out.
 
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ILLFAN67
We are piling up wins this year. Thank goodness for coaching and some great plays and a little help from opposing teams/coaches we could easily be .500. Great to see Bielema give us the edge that other previous head coaches haven’t. He’s as solid of a head coach as you will find. I’ll take out good luck and really want that 9th win from NW. we could get a good bowl and if our players won’t opt out could win a New Year’s Day bowl!
 
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