Game Thread: Illinois at Minnesota

[OrangeAndBlueBlooded]

First half shutout!

 

[illinoistradition]

If anyone still questions why we fired Lovie, have you watched any of these games? What a stand by this defense!!

 

[thehass]

Hats off to the defense this half.

 

[sully]

FG NO GOOD!

Heck yeah GO ILLINI!!!!

 

[MaineIllini]

Holder was still twisting the ball when it was kicked

 

[BWBW]

Nice half

 

[IlliniFaninHoosierLand]

Today a trap game for Gophers with Floyd of Rosedale game in Iowa City next week?

 

[DeonThomas]

One of our 3 or 4 best halves of the year!!

ILL !!!!!!

 

[LJ22]

This team is just the most Illini thing ever.

 

[Illini_05]

My best guess is that Tony Petersen showed up to the stadium late and he’s now calling plays. That’s why the offense has been dead for a while.

 

[ILL_INI]

Today a trap game for Gophers with Floyd of Rosedale game in Iowa City next week?

Let's see if Fleck talks about preparing for Illinois at Camp Randall next week

 

[altgeld88]

Let's see if Fleck talks about preparing for Illinois at Camp Randall next week

POTD so far IMO

 

[IlliniFaninHoosierLand]

Let's see if Fleck talks about preparing for Illinois at Camp Randall next week

Camp Randall...Also known as the Big House.

 

[Dan]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1457036961508646915

 

[Illini1429]

Beautiful November day here in the Twin Cities, it was nice yesterday as well. Our fickle Fighting Illini have done enough so far. All the pressure is on Minnesota. We go into Happy Valley & beat a top ten Penn State & lose at home to Rutgers who actually played like a top ten team, then we shut out number 20 on the road for the first half. This team does fight even though it doesn't always show up in the box score at times. I-L-L...I-N-I !!!!

 

[pruman91]

We were up 14-10 at halftime last week , so I'm still sweating bullets....What adjustments do we make and will we continue to play to win or do like last week and lay an egg in the second half....will be interesting as we get the ball first next half and a long TD drive would really make my day....It really really would

 

[RML]

If we can open the second half with a seven-minute TD drive, l'm gonna feel pretty good about our chances here.

 

[thehass]

A long time consuming touchdown drive to start the second half would keep my giddy alive.

 

[Ramrod2010]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1457036961508646915

 

[thehass]

I'm hoping the coaches are telling the players there is another half to play

 

[zentrails]

Get conservative....get beat. Hopefully I'm wrong but I've seen it happen often.

Worked this time, better to be lucky IMO

 

[OrangeAndBlueBlooded]

They ran twice as many plays as we did and outgained us 110 to 27 in the second quarter.

 

[MaineIllini]

I do not like the announcer pronouncing Illini as a 4-syllable word.

 

[EyeoftheIllini]

Well those last 3 drives on offense were disappointing. It’s not like the Illini were whipping the ball around to get the lead. If they were, OK maybe get a bit more conservative with a 14 point lead. But play calling early was relatively conservative, but they were mixing it up some too.

 

[zentrails]

We were up 14-10 at halftime last week , so I'm still sweating bullets....What adjustments do we make and will we continue to play to win or do like last week and lay an egg in the second half....will be interesting as we get the ball first next half and a long TD drive would really make my day....It really really would

They are starting to stuff our running game, it'll be interesting how we adjust to what they are doing besides telling the OL not to whiff on blocks