Game Thread: Illinois at UCLA

[TheChief4Life]

A blitz?!

 

[New Creation]

26 in white

 

[RIP_Chief_2003]

Need points on this drive…

 

[FloridaMan]

Wish the offense could help out our D a little.

I can't believe I just said that.

 

[Altgeld's Bells]

Can we please get a Clayton series

He's out/injured.

 

[Coop70]

Dodge ball!

 

[PasadenaIllini]

It is night and freaking day with our new DC vs. our old DC. Great coaching calls after that turnover.

 

[AssemblyHallForever]

Nice job by X there. Would have been nice if he could have pulled it down.

He got face masked on the play

 

[ChiefGritty]

Defense was never the problem with this team.

Lol, prior games did in fact occur, they weren't fake.

 

[Scoregasm]

Can we sustain one drive tonight for the love of Lunney?

 

[RML]

Hey, they said something positive about us!

 

[IllinistuckinGopherland]

Defense was never the problem with this team.

Defensive talent, maybe. Defensive coaching, definitely WAS a problem

 

[Illini2010-11]

Dont often see a 24 yard punt to the 10 yard line.

Strange sequence there..

 

[CaptainCrutch]

What a kick in the wiener it would be to lose this game with our defense playing its best game the year due to an offensive poopfest

 

[SuperMetroid]

Defense keeping us in it. Offense has been a miserable watch so far

 

[altgeld88]

That interception was at least the second time the announcers have applauded a no call / no review on something that benefits UCLA. One of the guys in particular is not even hiding his bias for UCLA. Is it too much to ask to have impartial announcers??

Alas, yes. LA team rising from the ashes, young telegenic coach, flavor of the month, Michigan color analyst. No way they won’t be rooting for UCLA.

 

[CDRUSN]

Great sack by Kante! This game is still winnable, but on offense we need to stop

 

[TheFlyingIllini1317]

Clean football, field position, and a couple explosives can win this game

 

[gary?]

Nice job by X there. Would have been nice if he could have pulled it down.

wr was trying to remove Scott’s facemask with his left hand

 

[wncillini]

Punting from the 34, yeah they know we likely arent scoring. Run from here on out. At least we have has some success.

 

[Illini in Italy]

We don't pass my own personal eye test so far (and the TV guys seem butthurt they even have to talk about our team).
They seem to be much more talented in nearly all ways, but heck Houser could get hot so who knows, like you say, only down 10
I didn't think we passed the eye test against Nebby either but that turned out to be not much of a contest once the dust settled

 

[BWBW]

Let's see a long touchdown drive. Please.

 

[zentrails]

What a kick in the wiener it would be to lose this game with our defense playing its best game the year due to an offensive poopfest

D is good enough to beat IA and NW, though IMO if they can keep this up

 

[skyIdub]

It's not often the #4 team in the nation places a home game on the table for you to eat.

Now we just have to eat.


Edit: or, you know....throw up all over ourselves.

 

[Keisersose]

"Sir, we have the Purdue Boilermakers on line 2."

Nope. Watch that game again. Defense had big stops late and gave the offense opportunities that they couldn’t convert. Then we did the squib kick to the DT and that was basically ballgame.

The resources went to the the offense.