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<blockquote data-quote="GILL-INOIS" data-source="post: 1840931" data-attributes="member: 747818"><p>Illinois and Mississippi St are more comparable teams. Mississippi St has more talent on both sides of the ball than Illinois. They might get 5-6 4 star guys for example each season plus transfers. The talent difference is not that big with the styles that were played today. I have no doubt Illinois wins that game if both teams had players that played throughout the season today. I am not down about the game at all.</p><p></p><p>Purdue losing a star QB who was a "franchise QB" for this program who threw 88% of the TD passes this season and the top WR and TE who accounted for 80% of the TD receptions were out plus others on both sides of the ball. Purdue missing those guys was massive but so is the talent gap between teams. LSU had something like sixteen 4 star recruits and two 5 star recruits in the 2021 recruiting class alone. The 2020 recruiting class had thirteen 4 star guys and three five star guys. (Not saying all of them stayed but huge gap in talent) SEC teams have tons of 4 star recruits that don't see the field every season. The talent gap was huge and just a horrible matchup for Purdue today. Both teams played a bunch of guys or the score would have been worse. Weird to say that</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GILL-INOIS, post: 1840931, member: 747818"] Illinois and Mississippi St are more comparable teams. Mississippi St has more talent on both sides of the ball than Illinois. They might get 5-6 4 star guys for example each season plus transfers. The talent difference is not that big with the styles that were played today. I have no doubt Illinois wins that game if both teams had players that played throughout the season today. I am not down about the game at all. Purdue losing a star QB who was a "franchise QB" for this program who threw 88% of the TD passes this season and the top WR and TE who accounted for 80% of the TD receptions were out plus others on both sides of the ball. Purdue missing those guys was massive but so is the talent gap between teams. LSU had something like sixteen 4 star recruits and two 5 star recruits in the 2021 recruiting class alone. The 2020 recruiting class had thirteen 4 star guys and three five star guys. (Not saying all of them stayed but huge gap in talent) SEC teams have tons of 4 star recruits that don't see the field every season. The talent gap was huge and just a horrible matchup for Purdue today. Both teams played a bunch of guys or the score would have been worse. Weird to say that [/QUOTE]
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