Illini Football 2026

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Dkayak
jrock said:
EA College Football 27 has Illinois ranked 3rd to last in the Big Ten. Let that sink in. We are ranked higher than 2 teams in the conference. Purdue and Rutgers. That's it. Its pathetic.
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This is simply too bad to be remotely credible, so it’s not worth reading. For example, compare it to our over/under of 7.5 (same as Iowa’s btw). Does EA has sharper insights than the oddsmakers? If you wouldn’t place a bet based on EA’s ranking, I wouldn’t lose sleep over it either. It’s nonsense.
 
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IlliniCaboose
Dkayak said:
This is simply too bad to be remotely credible, so it’s not worth reading. For example, compare it to our over/under of 7.5 (same as Iowa’s btw). Does EA has sharper insights than the oddsmakers? If you wouldn’t place a bet based on EA’s ranking, I wouldn’t lose sleep over it either. It’s nonsense.
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To be fair, I've thought that 7.5 was really, really generous based on what we have coming back and the change in defensive schemes. If we get to 7 wins this year I'll be really happy.
 
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Dkayak
IlliniCaboose said:
To be fair, I've thought that 7.5 was really, really generous based on what we have coming back and the change in defensive schemes. If we get to 7 wins this year I'll be really happy.
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Sure, understood. But when the professional oddsmakers differ that much from a single online ranking, one of them is WAY off. EA is the “flier” data point among all prognostications. Never lose sleep over an outlier.
 
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