Pregame: Illinois at Washington, Saturday, October 25th, 2:30pm CT, BTN

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altgeld88
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#127      
WyattEarp
PNWIllini said:
“The greatest venue in college football.”

Those rain shields reflect crowd noise down and on the field.

As has been noted elsewhere, Pacific Northwest crowds show up expecting to play a role in disrupting the opposition. The reflected noise from the rain shields is a feature of all stadiums - from middle school on up.

They grow up here believing it’s their job to make noise regardless of the situation.

Expect to need to deal with loads of stadium noise.
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Who are you quoting?
 
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Bucktown
WyattEarp said:
Who are you quoting?
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I believe the term is The Greatest Setting in College Football. Which is mostly about it location on Lake Washington not the stadium proper. Sailgaiting is very cool and unique, but not available to most attendees and the regular tailgating is pretty limited.

UW as a campus is pretty stunning, however. The southern half of the main campus is oriented toward the view of Mount Rainier.
 
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fuddrules
Bucktown said:
I believe the term is The Greatest Setting in College Football. Which is mostly about it location on Lake Washington not the stadium proper. Sailgaiting is very cool and unique, but not available to most attendees and the regular tailgating is pretty limited.

UW as a campus is pretty stunning, however. The southern half of the main campus is oriented toward the view of Mount Rainier.
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Yep, give me tailgaiting on good old terra firma. At least the vast majority of the masses can participate.

It's amazing how many people tailgate at Illinois and don't even go to the game. I was told the tailgate I attend - vs. OSU - had about 20 people watching the game in the tailgating lot. Tickets were sold out so the next best option was just to tailgate. We have it really good for pre/post game.
 
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altgeld88
Bucktown said:
I believe the term is The Greatest Setting in College Football. Which is mostly about it location on Lake Washington not the stadium proper. Sailgaiting is very cool and unique, but not available to most attendees and the regular tailgating is pretty limited.

UW as a campus is pretty stunning, however. The southern half of the main campus is oriented toward the view of Mount Rainier.
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Confirmed. I visited Husky Stadium in the summers of '90 and '96, in the olden times when one could still wander into such stadiums at will and enjoy them. I've seen most of the major college football venues and nothing tops that one for a jaw-dropping setting. UC-Boulder is a distant second, perhaps.

Someday I want to see an Illinois football game there, and will roll the dice on whether the sun appears for a bit. I defer to our PNW contingent but it seems that every time I watch the Huskies on TV in Oct/Nov the sun during day games is fairly rare.
 
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Bucktown
altgeld88 said:
Confirmed. I visited Husky Stadium in the summers of '90 and '96, in the olden times when one could still wander into such stadiums at will and enjoy them. I've seen most of the major college football venues and nothing tops that one for a jaw-dropping setting. UC-Boulder is a distant second, perhaps.

Someday I want to see an Illinois football game there, and will roll the dice on whether the sun appears for a bit. I defer to our PNW contingent but it seems that every time I watch the Huskies on TV in Oct/Nov the sun during day games is fairly rare.
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Yeah, right now starting next Thursday rain is predicted 8 days in row.
 
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thefalcon5
Bucktown said:
Yeah, right now starting next Thursday rain is predicted 8 days in row.
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We should be praying for some dry weather.

Run game v run game they clear ours with relative ease, especially if our RB room isn’t 100%. I just don’t buy it can be.

And I’d really like to stick to Walters with a 40 or 50 burger. Gonna need some passing attack to get up there.
 
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Fighter of the Nightman
FWIW, our road record under Bielema in the next game after what I would consider an emotionally taxing home loss...

2021
Oct. 9 - L 0-24 vs. Wisconsin
---> Bye Week on Oct. 16
---> W 20-18 in 9OT at #7 Penn State

Oct. 30 - L 14-20 vs. Rutgers
---> Nov. 6 - W 24-6 at #20 Minnesota

2022
Nov. 12 - L 24-31 vs. Purdue
---> Nov. 19 - L 17-19 at #3 Michigan

2023
Oct. 6 - L 7-20 vs. Nebraska
---> Oct. 14 - W 27-24 at Maryland

Oct. 21 - L 21-25 vs. Wisconsin
---> Bye Week on Oct. 28
---> Nov. 4 - W 27-26 at Minnesota

So even in the one loss (at Michigan in 2022), we arguably played our best game of the year and only lost on a walk-off field goal vs. a top 3 team after a TERRIBLE call screwed us ... the pattern seems to be pretty clear that we usually bring it in such situations!

I'm expecting a more disciplined effort than we have seen all year and a chip-on-our-shoulders attitude. Let's get back in the win column and end this year on a tear. Rankings below are my predictions based on what I think happens this upcoming weekend, BTW, which includes Washington winning at the Big House.

#25 Illinois 31
#22 Washington 20
 
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HensonHall71
Curbelo Fanboy said:
There comes a point in the development of a program where you start consistently winning these kind of games on the road. We've been pretty solid on the road the last few years. Washington is a step up in class from most of those teams we beat on the road. Maybe similar to Nebraska early last year tho probably a bit better than that. The good programs win these type of games more often than not.

Would be another Bret stamp on this program.
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Nebraska game from last year is a good comparison - we're not expected to win, we likely will be a 6 point dog or so (vs. 9.5 dog against Nebraska, but we were relatively unknown how good we would be at that point). Going into a hostile environment. One of my fears is we haven't played well on the West Coast - have we even won a game on the West Coast since maybe the '89 Jeff George USC game?

Regardless - I agree with your point, winning games like this are a key mile marker in our football team's growth
 
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Curbelo Fanboy
HensonHall71 said:
Nebraska game from last year is a good comparison - we're not expected to win, we likely will be a 6 point dog or so (vs. 9.5 dog against Nebraska, but we were relatively unknown how good we would be at that point). Going into a hostile environment. One of my fears is we haven't played well on the West Coast - have we even won a game on the West Coast since maybe the '89 Jeff George USC game?

Regardless - I agree with your point, winning games like this are a key mile marker in our football team's growth
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We won at San Diego State in 2002 & at Cal in 2001. SDSU had fallen off by then & Cal in 2001 was awful. Pre Rodgers. Those are the only west coast wins I can recall since 89. And often times we have gotten rolled out west. I do remember Tepper's crew just throwing a game away at Oregon in 1995. Other than that we got smoked by USC in the Rose Bowl, Oregon last year, Arizona in maybe 1996 & Arizona State in Lasagna Boy's first year. All of those were well over by half time.
 
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fuddrules
Curbelo Fanboy said:
We won at San Diego State in 2002 & at Cal in 2001. SDSU had fallen off by then & Cal in 2001 was awful. Pre Rodgers. Those are the only west coast wins I can recall since 89. And often times we have gotten rolled out west. I do remember Tepper's crew just throwing a game away at Oregon in 1995. Other than that we got smoked by USC in the Rose Bowl, Oregon last year, Arizona in maybe 1996 & Arizona State in Lasagna Boy's first year. All of those were well over by half time.
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Just a little before that, 1998 - loss at Washington State 13-20. The Illinois passing game was so bad. Not Kirk Johnson bad but bad.

1997 Kirk Johnson - threw 4 picks - maybe all in the first half?? Illinois gets crushed by Purdue 48-3. Purdue QB Billy Dicken's from Bloomington, IL. His backup, in garbage time completed 1 of 4 passes - Drew Brees.
 
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Curbelo Fanboy
fuddrules said:
Just a little before that, 1998 - loss at Washington State 13-20. The Illinois passing game was so bad. Not Kirk Johnson bad but bad.
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Forgot about that one. The Oregon loss I mentioned in 1995 was particularly painful. We lost despite a 5 to 1 turnover margin in our favor. Capped off by Johnny Johnson fumbling in our end zone for Oregon to recover for the winning score in the last few minutes.

Another of those near misses that dotted the Lou Tepper era before the wheels fell off in the 96 season.
 
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altgeld88
Curbelo Fanboy said:
40 years ago the fanbases in this conference would have all spontaneously combusted if you told them 5 of the top 10 pass offenses in the country were in the Big Ten.
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lol. Bo Schembechler in the early '70s "Only three things can happen when you pass the ball, and two of them are bad."

Hayden Fry and Mike White forced him to change his tune by ~ '82.
 
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Bucktown
HensonHall71 said:
Nebraska game from last year is a good comparison - we're not expected to win, we likely will be a 6 point dog or so (vs. 9.5 dog against Nebraska, but we were relatively unknown how good we would be at that point). Going into a hostile environment. One of my fears is we haven't played well on the West Coast - have we even won a game on the West Coast since maybe the '89 Jeff George USC game?

Regardless - I agree with your point, winning games like this are a key mile marker in our football team's growth
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Let's break another streak.
 
#145      
Genesis
That tells us that we beat two of the top 11 pass offenses in the country (#11 Duke and #6 USC) and fairly effectively held #8 OSU in check. There's only 1 of the four, #2 Indiana, that we couldn't stop. With an extra week to prepare, I'm not afraid to face #1.
 
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WeWillWhen
My dream is that the Huskies win at Ann Arbor, with a couple of their key players getting banged up in the fourth quarter. 😎
 
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