That play happened right in front of me in the NEZ student section. It was truly mind boggling
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I have no memory of the "missed" field goal, I guess my brain is protecting me from additional trauma.
Illini2010-11
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Probably. I remember watching the game with some friends at Legends (late Friday night game), and we all thought we had won until we saw Zook yelling at the officials.
Shief
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I was in the Marching Illini then and watched from the field behind the end zone when Fresno State scored that 2 point conversation, I was less than 50 ft from where it happened. It took MINITES for the refs to review that play.
The game was absolutely cold and the slight wind didn't help. I don't have the attendance numbers but the stadium was basically empty. If there were more than 15k there at peak, I would be surprised. The only section that was 'full' was the band.
If I am not mistaken Illinois has the 7th toughest strength of schedule amount the CFP top 25
Kansas doing their best to help us out the past 2 weeks.
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
Illini2010-11
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Maybe we should just play Nebraska and a Michigan school the rest of the year. 16 of the 22 sacks came in those 3 games (6 @Nebraska, 5 each Mich and MSU), whereas only 6 came in the other 4 games.
AVG: 5.33 sacks per game vs Neb/Mich/MSU; 1.5 sacks per game in other B1G games (only 1 sack against lowly Purdue!)
yep, remembered they came in bunches and we need to consistently get pressure in QBs game in and game out.
that said, i still think its note worthy for what it is
Appears to be a strong correlation between getting pressure on the QB and getting good results.
So if KU & MSU get to six wins, we'd have victories over 5 bowl teams? That must be a record, no?
Contributing Seniors still on the team from the classes of 2020 and 2021
2020
- Fabrizio Pinton
- Hugh Robertson
2021
- Pat Bryant
- Josh Kreutz
- Josh Gesky
- Josh McCray
- Kenenna Odeluga
- Alec Bryant (transfer)
- Dylan Rosiek (injured)
- Tyler Strain (injured most of the year)
Some really good players listed above, but getting to 8-3 (2 losses being to top 4 teams) with that few number of seniors is extremely impressive
2020
- Fabrizio Pinton
- Hugh Robertson
2021
- Pat Bryant
- Josh Kreutz
- Josh Gesky
- Josh McCray
- Kenenna Odeluga
- Alec Bryant (transfer)
- Dylan Rosiek (injured)
- Tyler Strain (injured most of the year)
Some really good players listed above, but getting to 8-3 (2 losses being to top 4 teams) with that few number of seniors is extremely impressive
Isn't mcCray a redshirt jr due to the injury in 2022?
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
Big leap in SP+ this week. Went from 54 to 42.
Big Ten SP+ (outside of Oregon, Ohio State, & Penn State) with change from preseason:
11- Indiana (up 70)
17 - Iowa (up 7)
23 - USC (down 2)
32 - Michigan (down 25)
39 - Minnesota (up 8)
42 - Illinois (up 19)
55 - Nebraska (down 13)
59 - Wisconsin (down 23)
64 - Rutgers (down 15)
84 - Maryland (down 38)
88 - Michigan State (down 16)
89 - UCLA (down 52)
100 - Northwestern (down 25)
118 - Purdue (down 50)
Big Ten SP+ (outside of Oregon, Ohio State, & Penn State) with change from preseason:
11- Indiana (up 70)
17 - Iowa (up 7)
23 - USC (down 2)
32 - Michigan (down 25)
39 - Minnesota (up 8)
42 - Illinois (up 19)
55 - Nebraska (down 13)
59 - Wisconsin (down 23)
64 - Rutgers (down 15)
84 - Maryland (down 38)
88 - Michigan State (down 16)
89 - UCLA (down 52)
100 - Northwestern (down 25)
118 - Purdue (down 50)
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
Now it's the 9th best team.
1. 1994
2. 1989
3. 1983
4. 2001
5. 1999
6. 1982
7. 2022
8. 1984
9. 2024
10. 1976
11. 1990
12. 1995
13. 2007
14. 1973
15. 2010
Testing my old age memory as I don't remember illini doing that well, and they didn't; as 1976 illini were 5-6 in 4 way tie for 3rd place. So if that is Top 10, that's really sad...
1m4tr
Cliffmas
If we beat Northwestern, where does it put us?
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
They're ranked very high because they played a hellacious schedule. Here are the end-of-season SRS rankings for each team they played matched up with the current team's rank of opponent quality:
#1 Michigan..........#4 Oregon
#3 Texas A&M..........#5 Penn State
#7 Ohio State..........#33 Kansas
#18 Missouri..........#34 Nebraska
#28 Baylor..........#35 Minnesota
#32 Minnesota..........#38 Michigan
#36 Wisconsin..........#53 Rutgers
#45 Purdue..........#83 Northwestern
#52 Michigan State..........#106 Purdue
#58 Iowa..........#119 Central Michigan
#92 Northwestern..........FCS Eastern Illinois
*Left off #75 Michigan State to compensate for the '76 team only playing 11 games.
So imagine the current team removing the EIU and CMU games and replacing them with #7 Notre Dame and #18 BYU, plus the bottom of your schedule being 15-20 spots better across the board.
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