Illinois vs Nebraska, Friday, November 6th, 7:00pm CT, FOX
Neidermeyer
- Faber College
I assume Nebby wears red helmet white uni. Good call on blue.
While I do love the all blue, one of the best parts of playing a red team at home is that their fans blend into ours so you can't tell how many visitors there are.
I'm not a fan of the idea of the "blue out" (at the very least, could we call it something else?), but will be interesting to see. I can appreciate doing it against a red team, and I can appreciate doing something different, but I just don't think it will work. Like others have alluded to, any smattering of orange in the crowd will be very noticeable. Any red in the crowd will be very noticeable, and it would have disappeared in a sea of orange. Anyway, I hope I'm wrong and it looks cooler than I'm thinking it will. Either way, I don't care if our fanbase collectively decides to wear neon pink, as long as we can secure a bowl bid.
TheFlyingIllini1317
- Chicago, IL
I know it's a Friday but a bit surprised this isn't a sellout. If we took one of Duke or Purdue I think it would be.
Friday games just are not working out at Illinois. I think a big part is how far so many fans have to travel to make it and how late the game finishes. Combine that with $500/night hotel rooms, and people are just not willing to do it. Then toss in 40 degree weather at kickoff, and the crowd is going to be pretty sparse tomorrow. It's unfortunate, but we would have to be 7-1 and ranked to be pulling in a sellout.
I think Friday P4 games are lame. Let the non-AQ conferences have their time during the week. The games are actually really good lately.
If it was up to me we it would be Saturdays and moving rivalry games away from Thanksgiving weekend.
But but...Friday night lights 