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

[ChiefGritty]

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.

It's a battle between what we've got in hand after two games, which this is a very reasonable assessment of, versus a smart coaching staff and a winning culture within the building, which we know having been on the other side of it for so many years just has a way of finding wins.

The wheels are wobbling, there are no two ways about that, but you can't just give up in September. Every bucket of water we can bail out of this leaking boat counts.

 

[Dan]

Paul Bermeister (play-by-play), Ian Book (analyst), and Ashley ShahAhmadi (reporter) have the television broadcast streaming on Peacock.

Illinois Finishes Nonconference Schedule Against Southern Illinois - University of Illinois Athletics

Illinois looks to restart its nonconference winning streak.

fightingillini.com

 

[Curbelo Fanboy]

The rare 1pm kickoff. With tv seems everything hits the 11 or 2:30 window on Saturdays these days. Or a Friday night. In the old days, 1pm kickoff meant no tv or perhaps only regional coverage on channel 3 out of Champaign. We had lots of those 1pm kicks in the mid/late 90's.

 

[NoRival]

The rare 1pm kickoff. With tv seems everything hits the 11 or 2:30 window on Saturdays these days. Or a Friday night. In the old days, 1pm kickoff meant no tv or perhaps only regional coverage on channel 3 out of Champaign. We had lots of those 1pm kicks in the mid/late 90's.

Being a season ticket holder, I would LOVE a non-televised game at 1 pm once a season. The game would go so quickly without all of the TV timeouts.

 

[Curbelo Fanboy]

Being a season ticket holder, I would LOVE a non-televised game at 1 pm once a season. The game would go so quickly without all of the TV timeouts.

Sadly tho back then they still took the tv timeouts (for radio coverage) but yes they were shorter & the game was quicker.

 

[gary?]

I feel more confident about the team now than before the season

wow, i'll have what you're having. from your lips/fingertips. . .

 

[Dan]

 

[GatorMcKlusky]

Platt coming back will give Houser that 2nd 1A/1B receiver.

Brown coming back will help take care of *some* of the shortcomings on D.

Last year’s wonderful season included 25-42 Loss at Washington and 10-27 Loss at Wisconsin.

While I’m not ignoring the issues, I’m not ready to enter into despair based on 1/6 sample size of the season.

When are they coming back?