Pregame: Illinois at Iowa, Saturday, November 18th, 2:30pm CT, FS1
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#9. No matter the outcome, fire Aaron Henry
Pretty sure Iowa will hold it's self to 6 points. We will just be a long for the ride when it happens.
Paddock will start . If scenarios presents itself, Luke will come in.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
I dunno. After last week's Caligula-esque explosion of offense (22 pts!!) in the wake of Baby Ferentz's defenestration, I'm guessing that he's liberated in a similar manner to JMF Paddock and we'll see Hawks Gone Wild on the beaches of the Iowa River. They might very well reach 24 this week.
band camp
- STL City
Blind Melon cover of this song is great.
This looks correct, mostly since 50% of the results end in "fire Lunney Jr."
By the way, I've noticed that Bret's mentioned Donovan Leary a few times recently. I'm thinking/hoping we go into 2024 with a good 1st/2nd option at the QB spot.
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
#9? That's odd.
Bielema said they’ve known since Sunday. I think the interview on Sirius said that “as of yesterday (Tuesday) Luke was totally cleared to play.”
So that would make me think that it’s Paddock if they knew Sunday who was gonna start but LA hadn’t been cleared yet.
Buuuut he also didn’t say “Luke was cleared yesterday.” So, maybe Luke was clear as of Tuesday. And also clear as of Monday, and Sunday.
total smoke screen. Who knows!I propose 11-5 as an even uglier score. I don't see us getting 11, though. Maybe 9-5?
So long as we win, baby.
Iowa is not the ‘85 Bears. They’ve mostly played anemic BTW offenses and the one good team they played scored more on them than they did against us with the 5 TOs we dropped in their lap. And whoever they draw in Indy is going to beat them like an absolute drum to the tune of 35-49 to 3 because they don’t have the speed, size, and overall talent to match up physically with those squads.
No reason to think we can’t exploit some good matchups where we have speed or size advantages against their D. I think Paddock’s ability to read quickly and get the ball out could really make a big difference and open up the run. Defense needs to be disciplined and bring effort from start to finish.
No reason to think we can’t exploit some good matchups where we have speed or size advantages against their D. I think Paddock’s ability to read quickly and get the ball out could really make a big difference and open up the run. Defense needs to be disciplined and bring effort from start to finish.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
My official color of surprised will be "gobsmacked". It's a weird green and purple combo with spots of red.
I'm 89% sure pruman has curtains this color!
I'm suspecting this as well (no inside info, just guessing), but OTOH I don't think either QB would have much luck passing on IA's D even with their top CB out and that's assuming our O line can protect which is a whole 'nother can o worms.
Plus I think Lunney is going to call a bunch of first and second down runs which will be stuffed leading to long 3rd downs which IA will feast on. Hope I am wrong
edit: if Kaden is out which that injury report seems to confirm, running a lot would seem to be less likely obviously. Whoever plays QB for us (could be both, I guess) is going to have to play really well or we will have to earn the bowl game against NW, obvious again
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Illinois is really sending John Paddock to the bench? Really?
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We’ll beat Iowa by 8-10.
Will follow it up with a stinker against northwestern. Lose the bowl.
I feel it in my bones. Try and run from it but this Illini fandom.
Will follow it up with a stinker against northwestern. Lose the bowl.
I feel it in my bones. Try and run from it but this Illini fandom.
GrayGhost77
- Centennial, CO
Newsflash. If we beat Iowa that'll be 6 wins and we'll be in a bowl.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Time to flip the script on Iowa. I was born in December 1991, and on my birthday we were 32-20 all-time vs. Iowa. After the 2000 season, we had actually expanded our series lead to 37-24 all-time. We inconveniently did not play them in 2001 or 2002, but since we made the Sugar Bowl...
- We are 2-13 vs. Iowa.
- We are 0-7 in Iowa City, with our last victory there coming in 1999.
- We have experienced losing streaks of 5 and 8 games vs. Iowa in that timeframe.
- We have lost to Iowa by more than two touchdowns in 8 of those 13 losses, including an utterly humiliating 63-0 loss in 2018 - good for the worst in school history.
Living in Iowa City from 1998 to 2019 ... it has been REALLY tough. I am so sick of losing to that program that I can't even really articulate it. I want this one BAD. And I think we get it.
Illinois 20
Iowa 13
- We are 2-13 vs. Iowa.
- We are 0-7 in Iowa City, with our last victory there coming in 1999.
- We have experienced losing streaks of 5 and 8 games vs. Iowa in that timeframe.
- We have lost to Iowa by more than two touchdowns in 8 of those 13 losses, including an utterly humiliating 63-0 loss in 2018 - good for the worst in school history.
Living in Iowa City from 1998 to 2019 ... it has been REALLY tough. I am so sick of losing to that program that I can't even really articulate it. I want this one BAD. And I think we get it.
Illinois 20
Iowa 13
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
That would suck, but it would be kind of on par for us, haha. It reminds me of 2019 where we got hot and won four straight after upsetting Wisconsin. At 6-4 and with a bit of a hot streak, 8-4 and a trip to Indy was actually still on the table. We of course lost a good game at #17 Iowa (the late hit on Peters), and proceeded to get our a$$es kicked against a 2-9 Northwestern team at home the next game to finish 6-6.
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