Pregame: Illinois at Michigan State, Saturday, October 10th, 2:30pm CT, FS1
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42 to 12
stream it here. might be more fun to watch
PizzaHutParkingLot
- Vodice, Croatia
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Golly, this line could be anything
I’m SOOOO tired of our injury reports looking like an ikea manual. How does 20% of our team always seem injured?
i'll be there. it'll be some classic illini football action. half empty building, winner goes 3-9 and loser goes 2-10. can't wait
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- Batavia
Praying for some 2006 magic. I will be there. Feeling pretty hopeless at this point though…
Yeah I mean you'd think with how all out they were apparently going in practice to get the injury list like this we'd be the most hungry and fired up team in the country.
Purdue is worse than we are. So, no, I have no hope.
Me too, and I don’t have any hair!
blackdog
- Champaign
Purdue was 1-3 but the teams that beat them have lost a total of 1 game all season between them. MSU is a dumpster fire. Doesn't mean we will win but it's much more of a toilet bowl.
Can we just go ahead and forfeit to save the fresh air of Michigan and our bus driving the garbage up there? Im now a fan of whoever michigan plays until we can put a consistent program with some excitement on the field. Do you mean to tell me that Northwestern is now the primo football school and stadium in the state...
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
After today...no they are not. They simply played a harder schedule than us to this point. Going into the game today, I was much less confident than many other posters, as I have thought Purdue was better than their record.
The Illini are easily one of the four worst teams in the B1G (Illini, MSU, Maryland, and Rutgers). Good news is that we play two of them (starting next week). Win those two, and we might be 4-4 going down the stretch in November.
If we lose this game, then we are likely a 2 or 3 win team. Win, and we can possibly get to 5 wins (maybe 6 if we get a couple upsets).
This team was always going to be worse than prior years, but the extent of the fall has been more disappointing. It is looking like this team might go 2-5 at home this year (barring an upset or two)...that is unacceptable. The pressure for 2027 will be tremendous if this season continues to unravel.
And injured in practice or garbage time in a game.
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