Illinois at Maryland, Saturday, October 31st, 11:00am CT, FS1

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altgeld88
the Castle on Daniel said:
Lol, I completely get it and I agree. We SHOULD win, it SHOULD be walloping, but I would not be surprised to see us win something like 31-10
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BWBW said:
If we win 31-10, I will be ecstatic.
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31-10 and I pop some Veuve Clicquot afterward. Last time I saw us play in College Park it took a walk-off Caleb Griffin FG to win. I'll settle for something only a bit less nerve-wracking and will be happy. The Terps on Saturday truly will be the proverbial Forrest Gump box of chocolates.
 
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Illini2010-11
altgeld88 said:
I appreciate your optimism but see no evidence that this team is capable of walloping anyone in P5.

I respectfully suggest instead that "This should be an outscoring" per the MSU game (MSU having an offense, along with Michigan's, way worse that the Terps, at rock bottom in the entire D-1, not only P5.) Conservatively, that's probably as good as it gets. Then again, it would be a delight to see our D shut down an opposing team for 4Q. I'm still utterly baffled by last Saturday's game but Want To Believe.
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I mean outside of the first possession on Saturday, that is exactly what we did to Oregon. Can we replicate that success against MD, probably not.

We don't need to limit MD to 10 points to win though. I expect the Illini to score at least 30 points (of the power conference games, MD's best defensive scoring total was vs VT and that was 35 points), and given the Lunney wrinkles to the gameplan, I expect the MD defense to struggle mightily.
 
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