Pregame: Illinois vs Southern Illinois, Saturday, September 19th, 1:00pm CT, Peacock/YTTV

[Dan]

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Illinois vs Southern Illinois
Saturday, September 19th
1:00pm CT
Peacock & YouTube TV

 

[blackdog]

This needs to be a really big time practice game for our defense to figure out how to be physical and tackle. They just seem scared to get on the ground and go low on guys. Can't play defense scared of contact.

 

[Ander1345]

Hoping this is one of those get right games that has a 10 minute 4th quarter and we can get that fire back. SIU is not a good FCS team.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Practice game. Have to avoid injuries.

Roster that was already thin, getting thinner week by week.

 

[BoiseBaller]

They say the biggest leap is week one to week two. Didn’t see that at all today. Maybe two to three will be better.

 

[Ander1345]

They say the biggest leap is week one to week two. Didn’t see that at all today. Maybe two to three will be better.

We saw it on offense for about the first 33 minutes.

 

[gary?]

i am not being a doomer (or maybe i am, whatever), but this could be our last win. not sure who else we beat with this defense. offense petered out, too.

 

[redwingillini11]

My checklist moving forward:

Beat SIU
Beat Purdue
Beat Michigan State

After that we figure out what we are for the rest of the season.

 

[Coop70]

My checklist moving forward:

Beat SIU
Beat Purdue
Beat Michigan State

After that we figure out what we are for the rest of the season.

Only one likely.

 

[thefalcon5]

Hoping this is one of those get right games that has a 10 minute 4th quarter and we can get that fire back. SIU is not a good FCS team.

They’re ranked 28th in the FCS AP poll after dropping from 25th last week.

Not saying they are gonna even come within 20 in the point spread but to say they’re a bad FCS team is objectively wrong

 

[Vinegarben]

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Illinois vs Southern Illinois
Saturday, September 19th
1:00pm CT
Peacock & YouTube TV

Peacock is the perfect place for this team to be where NOBODY WATCHES.

 

[rdk573]

Given our first two performances, I asked AI to predict our remaining games...here's what it gave me..

Gives us a prediction of 3 more wins...Ouch...

Week	Opponent	Location	Predicted Score
3	Southern Illinois	Home	Illinois 34 – SIU 24
4	Ohio State	Away	Ohio State 45 – Illinois 20
5	Purdue	Home	Purdue 31 – Illinois 27
6	Michigan State	Away	Michigan State 28 – Illinois 24
7	Oregon	Home	Oregon 48 – Illinois 24
8	Maryland	Away	Maryland 38 – Illinois 28
9	Nebraska	Home	Illinois 27 – Nebraska 23
10	UCLA	Away	UCLA 34 – Illinois 26
11	Iowa	Home	Iowa 23 – Illinois 17
12	Northwestern	Away	Illinois 30 – Northwestern 24

 

[jrock]

My checklist moving forward:

Beat SIU
Beat Purdue
Beat Michigan State

After that we figure out what we are for the rest of the season.

Both purdue and msu will beat us. We are looking at 3-9 type of season. One with us likely giving up near 35 pts per game by seasons end.

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

My checklist moving forward:

Beat SIU
Beat Purdue
Beat Michigan State

After that we figure out what we are for the rest of the season.

SIU, shouldn't be a problem.

After that, it's a crapshoot. It's one thing to have a really good defense and struggle on offense. You can get down, dirty and nasty and win games. The opposite is most definitely not true. If you have a defense that is completely incapable of providing resistance in any facet of the game, every game, regardless of Big Ten opponent is 50/50, while games vs OSU and OSU is 0%. If that's the defense, keeping within 30 would be a moral victory and a miracle.

Looking at things from the MSU and Purdue perspective, they are looking at us as a win on their schedule.

Edit: Shifting to the Bears, they had the same type of defense last year, BUT they created an insane amount of turnovers to balance it out. That's the only way to overcome how brutal our interior D-Line in as well as our pass rush.

 

[Brosky]

Both purdue and msu will beat us. We are looking at 3-9 type of season. One with us likely giving up near 35 pts per game by seasons end.

Good Lord, the sky is not falling okay?

 

[TheChief4Life]

Both purdue and msu will beat us. We are looking at 3-9 type of season. One with us likely giving up near 35 pts per game by seasons end.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Both purdue and msu will beat us. We are looking at 3-9 type of season. One with us likely giving up near 35 pts per game by seasons end.

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

Good Lord, the sky is not falling okay?

I agree with you that after only two games, the sky isn't falling, but the weather outlook for a nice sunny day, just two weeks ago, has definition changed to more clouds and a chance for heavy thunderstorms if the atmosphere doesn't change paths.

 

[RIP_Chief_2003]

lol some (most) of you guys need to chill….

 

[kmunt09]

I will be there, proudly backing this team.

ILL

 

[lstewart53x3]

I like the posters who post after wins better.

 

[Tyrone HoggLegg]

Good Lord, the sky is not falling okay?

Sky doesn’t have to fall for pur and msu to beat us??? We’re not that good .

 

[JJE]

I suspect we drub SIU, and I’m not ready to give up on the season yet.

I wonder if any of those NFL guys who were on LSU’s roster want to come make some money. I’d imagine they’re pretty hard up for cash right now.

 

[spotter]

Both purdue and msu will beat us. We are looking at 3-9 type of season. One with us likely giving up near 35 pts per game by seasons end.

 

[spotter]

Illinois - 44
SIU - 14