Literally no one. We had no defensive coordinator. smh.
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redwingillini11
White and Sixth
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There is logic to your point of view. I'm still probably in the camp that I want Purdue to lose as many games as possible just so we have more avenues to the title game. Maybe we can pull of the upset in Ann Arbor (unfortunately probably not). But maybe Purdue loses to Indiana in what will likely be Indiana's "super bowl," trying to ruin their archrival's season.Looking at the upcoming Purdue schedule.
We probably want them to win the Iowa game, yeah? To make that game against Purdue as big as possible.
Because if we lose to Purdue and Michigan, Purdue would have to lose to Iowa and one of Indiana/Northwestern for us to still win the West.
Unlikely that Purdue has the talent to beat us, but lose 2 of their remaining 3.
So let’s make Purdue a massive game and crush ‘em
If Purdue and Illinois win next week I'll embrace it and loudly beat the drum for College Gameday. If Purdue loses to Iowa, I'll be at home snickering "LOL Purdont."
Guess we need to improve on 1st downs allowed and 3rd down conversions. C’mon guys, step it up.
MustangWally
- Mayfield
Maybe, but the game was on January 2nd.
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
Even if we lose @scUM, win the rest, and then lose in the B1G Championship.....the only way Bert isn't NCOY is if Tenn. wins the Natty. That may not be how it plays out because of the SEC visibility....but what Bielema has done here is monumental. Even when compared to the Vols.
If we manage to win either of those perceived L's....Bert gets it hands down.
If we manage to win either of those perceived L's....Bert gets it hands down.
FBS games only, so Chattanooga doesn’t count?
Apologies for the repeat post, but CUSHION PLEASE. As distasteful as it will be, I am pulling for Iowa this week.
Bet that's right, thanks.
Joel Goodson
- respect my decision™
It's raining donuts, baby!
IlliniFan85
- Colorado Springs, CO
Is anyone else worried about our 2nd half scoring? We average roughly 10 points per 2nd half against everyone, and roughly 11 points per half if we remove Chattanooga. I know we have had a lead in most of those games (and 1 of those games was with Art playing), but it has seemed we just either settle for field goals or just can't punch it in during the 2nd half of games.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Timely:
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Take the Iowa game and toss it from your head. Different kind of animal. Now think of the other games we've played recently. Nebraska. Minnesota. Wisconsin. Even Chattanooga and Virginia. When looking at those five photographs, what's the one thing they all had in common? Yes, we won with Chase...
There's a new The Athletic article ranking the 13 realistic CFP teams with 0 or 1 loss (after admitting if LSU won out they'd probably make it with 2 losses anyway), and they included a chart of rate statistics and rankings with team names omitted for a blind comparison:
theathletic.com
I'd imagine after a bit of looking you'd be able to tell where Illinois is in this list, but they clearly belong in this group overall, and are clearly not the worst profile of the bunch (B by a country mile). Dinged by overall schedule strength and offensive efficiency (not helped by playing Iowa and Minnesota defenses), but those are the glaring weaknesses of the profile at this point.
So, tomorrow, I'd expect to see them anywhere from 10 to 13.
Staples' still important Saturday takeaway: Ranking 13 CFP-eligible teams, blind-resume style
There are 13 lucky teams in contention for the College Football Playoff. We ranked them using a ton of metrics.
theathletic.com
I'd imagine after a bit of looking you'd be able to tell where Illinois is in this list, but they clearly belong in this group overall, and are clearly not the worst profile of the bunch (B by a country mile). Dinged by overall schedule strength and offensive efficiency (not helped by playing Iowa and Minnesota defenses), but those are the glaring weaknesses of the profile at this point.
So, tomorrow, I'd expect to see them anywhere from 10 to 13.
It was worse than that - in addition to no coordinator we had at least one completely unqualified position coach, as well as others who took their lead from the Head Snoozer in Charge and took the fall off.
JFGsCoffeeMug
BU:1 Trash cans:0
- Chicago
For those who want to play:
2022 College Football Predictions
FiveThirtyEight's 2022 college football predictions calculate each team's chances of winning its conference, making the playoff and winning a championship.
That is the funnest thing I've seen on the internet today ... and I was on redtube earlier!
Is it weird that I wish Marquez Beason was here for this? He reminded me of Trent the way he stayed loyal to the Beloved and he was our highest ranked recruit in a LONG time. I always remember when tOSU was trying to get him on an Official and Illini Nation was all, “We lost him.” And he went on social media and said, “Don’t worry. I turned them down and never even considered visiting.”
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
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Yes, because he wouldn't see the field if he was here.
Yeah, I know. That’s not at all what I was talking about. But, yeah.
So if we win out in the regular season (which I don't think we get fichigan but it could happen) the BB has 12 big ten wins here in 2 years...Lovie and lasagna had 12 big ten wins combined over 8 years. The boys should get steaks and cakes if this happens.
This has got to be game flow. I don't think we suddenly 'can't' score in the second half; rather, we play such a long, drawn out game that we don't need to. Keep in mind that we've only allowed 17 second half points all year. TOTAL. ALL YEAR. We just don't allow teams to have the ball.
Of those 17 points, 7 were scored in the last 30 seconds of one game, and 7 were scored in the first 30 seconds of another.
That's just unbelievable.
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
its Beilema's philosphy. use the strength of the players you have. get a 11-15 point lead , and basically sit on the ball the entire final 20 minutes of the game.
oh, and just win, baby
read Robert Rosenthal's article that someone else posted. its all by design
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