Ohio State 34, Illinois 16 Postgame

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We are a good team. We will make a bowl game. We are not a playoff team. Yet. In the bad old days this would have been a 56-3 beating.

Things to improve. But Illinois is a good football team with the right culture and the right coach.
And an elite leader, skilled, experienced QB. I don't think I'd trade QBs with any team in the country to be our college teams QB. He knows the offense and is accurate. Even today's interception was right in the wrs gut. The DB made a great play most wouldn't have.

I really hope we are grooming his replacement and our next QB can play close to as well as Luke does.
 
#102      
Pretty encouraging. We've improved since Indiana. Hope the recruits saw positives. Injuries are always a concern. 9 in the regular season is clearly doable. That would be a great continuation of last year.
 
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#105      
We are now only giving up 39 points per game in Big Ten play. No big deal
 
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Just got home and had to watch the long pass to Bowick that I saw from row 40 in front of us. I thought it was pass Interference then but wasn't called. It was! No ref near the play and the DB had both hands full of jersey pulling on it and it was missed. Pretty pathetic job by refs on that one.It was clear and obvious and no ref in position to get a good look at at.
 
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Well when Penn St. Fires Franklin. Let's cross our 👉 fingers they don't give CoachB 11 or 12 million to move east! Heck, go after Cignetti PennSt..
 
#110      
I agree, it’s the way it happened that is killer.

That still doesn’t change the fact that going to bed last night, 90% of us would have taken OSU scoring 34 points and ran with it.
I'm in the 10%. I thought to win we needed to hold them to 23pts maximum. And I thought the effort we gave today was exactly the effort needed to do just that. The turnovers were just killers. That was the difference. We play a clean game there's a reality where we win this one 24-23, even multiple realities. We played really well today, but we did the things you just can't do in these games. OSU shouldn't have had anywhere close to 34pts today and we gave it to them.

Outside of OSU's masterful 15 play or so response drive in the 2nd half, we were shutting off their water for the most part. We honestly had a chance in this one, but just fumbled away the possibility multiple times.

The one thing I'll say though is that man, if we can bottle up this effort and defense the rest of the season, we'll be 10-2 and daring the CFP to keep us out of the playoffs.

We played well today, but for the mistakes. But that's football and sports in general. Can't make those mistakes if you want to win
 
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Just got home and had to watch the long pass to Bowick that I saw from row 40 in front of us. I thought it was pass Interference then but wasn't called. It was! No ref near the play and the DB had both hands full of jersey pulling on it and it was missed. Pretty pathetic job by refs on that one.It was clear and obvious and no ref in position to get a good look at at.
Oh, to the contrary. She was in position, but was running to try to keep up with the play. Still could have easily been called. Good ol' B10 officiating at its finest!
 
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If Ohio State is the gold standard in college football — and it appears they are — the Illini are closer to that than in any time in my memory. Not there, but not that far away. They competed in every phase except holding onto the ball. Of course, holding onto the ball is pretty important.
And it's with primarily 3 stars. If we ever break thru and start pulling in multiple 4 stars look out!
 
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Oh, to the contrary. She was in position, but was running to try to keep up with the play. Still could have easily been called. Good ol' B10 officiating at its finest!
It was clearly a missed call. As a team though it almost seems like they let the bad breaks get them down instead of fighting harder.
 
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It's starting to become criminal that we aren't more frequently running tempo for our offense- Luke is SOOOOO much better when we do it. It took us way too long to do it today. Moving forward, we just have to do what's going to help Luke & our offense the most.
 
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We are now only giving up 39 points per game in Big Ten play. No big deal
Don't put ANY of this on the defense today. They were outstanding. The offense handed the ball to OSU inside 30 three times and the punt debacle gave it to them at midfield. They've had some rough ones(though Indiana doesn't look so bad now), but that's day wasn't one of them.

Just too many mistakes on the offensive side.
 
#119      
I’ve been saying the same thing. In addition, I get playing back on #4 and#17. We give so much cushion way to much. You have to anticipate and jump a route once in a while. Having said that, the defense was not the issue today. Turnovers and horrible calls from the female ref on the Ohio State sideline. She blew 3 critical calls the league should not but will tolerate
 
#120      
She missed several easy calls. Pathetic excuse for a referee
 
#122      
Was at the game, have not seen replay or heard explanation. How was the 1st down pass to sidelines, overruled. Looks like both feet were a good foot In bounds on the big screen, but only showed a couple replays and no explanation. Just no first down
 
#123      
We are now only giving up 39 points per game in Big Ten play. No big deal
The sample size is 4 games. Of those 4, 3 are ranked in the top 10 in the nation in offensive efficiency (#1, #6, and #10).

We gave up 19 to the #26 and 27 to the #61 ranked offenses.

Our final 5 games are against the #22, #23, #65, #94, and #101 ranked offenses.

All according to KFord:

 
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Too many mistakes, too many turnovers, and the refs protecting the NCAA's golden goose at an insanely ridiculous level equals a loss. At least we weren't embarrassed and showed heart, especially on defense. And I'm while I'm not saying we would've necessarily won if it weren't for the countless bs calls/non-calls against us, but I'm also NOT not saying that. 😁 At the very least it would've been a MUCH closer game.

As I asked in the game thread, how do we, as fans, force change on referees just straight up getting away with horrible officiating? It's been going on in every sport for far too long, the biases in favor of the cash cow are egregiously obvious to anyone with eyes, yet it just keeps happening. And it pisses me off to no end when players, especially young college kids, play their absolute hearts out, but because of a crooked ref/refs favoring favoring the cash cow teams, the outcome of the game is pretty much a foregone conclusion. There's GOTTA be a way for the millions of fans sick of this ish to force the leagues to put a stop to this, I just wish I knew what that way was...
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Was at the game, have not seen replay or heard explanation. How was the 1st down pass to sidelines, overruled. Looks like both feet were a good foot In bounds on the big screen, but only showed a couple replays and no explanation. Just no first down
He had been forced out of bounds. You must get back into the field of play to catch the ball. In the review, it showed his right foot was barely out of bounds when he jumped into the air to catch the ball. He did land with both feet in, but it didn’t matter by rule.
Had the Illini snapped the ball sooner on the next play, there would not have been a review.
 
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