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

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tell it like it is
My wife just text me from her plane leaving ORD for Seattle. She said it is packed with Illini fans! She is going on up to the most northwest part, but I will in my orange and blue cheering the Illini on from home. Let's hope all the traveling Illini fans make LOTS of noise and have allot to cheer for. GO ILLINI!!!
 
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RockfordIllini
I’m hoping we get a repeat of last year and this is where we flip the switch and start mashing people with our o line. I think UW seems like a good candidate to impose our will physically and sounds like the weather could slow down the passing game.

I think if we win the trenches we win the game.
 
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SuperintendentChalmers
Curbelo Fanboy said:
Every long term rebuild that end up successful have these watershed moment type of games. I'm sure some Wiscy fans can still quote certain games from the 90's where they "proved" their arrival.

It's not just pulling upsets against the name brands, it's winning on the road against a team that appears to be your equal. This game has a bit of that feel to me. Win & set up a potential for meaningful football in early December as well as raising the stature of the program.

A loss isn't a killer but a win could be one we look back fondly on years from now as one of those days where we established ourselves as a legit big boy in the upper third of the league. Bret's done great work & this is the next milestone. Winning the big games on the road when there is a lot at stake. Wisconsin & Iowa built a whole lot of their long term success over the last 25 years on consistently winning these type of games.

I really like us coming off a bye. Bret & crew has shown consistent good work on a bye or a long break the last couple years. Even the Citrus Bowl, we implemented some things that we used to success in that game with time to self scout & make some tweaks to what we do.
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It might not seem so given that they’ve struggled this year, but the Pat Bryant game at Rutgers was one of these. That game was essentially a play-in for the Citrus Bowl, which would have been the biggest bowl in school history for RU. Pregame win probability was 52-48. Hopefully, the same happy result.
 
#356      
Birdus
With a few exceptions, most of the sites I have been on do not give us a chance. Altmyer is overrated, We do not have a good run game. Our defense is to porous. Etc. I love it. We are being disrespected big time and I think we play ourselves into a WIN here. Huskies fans are going to go home disappointed on Saturday.
 
#357      
Chief Piasa
Our plane out of STL was overbooked today, so hopefully there were too many IL fans. We were going but my wife now has Covid. Oh, well.

Here’s hoping those 2 missing OL for WA makes IL’s containment easier and Luke can win the turnover war. IL 27-24.
 
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Curbelo Fanboy
SuperintendentChalmers said:
It might not seem so given that they’ve struggled this year, but the Pat Bryant game at Rutgers was one of these. That game was essentially a play-in for the Citrus Bowl, which would have been the biggest bowl in school history for RU. Pregame win probability was 52-48. Hopefully, the same happy result.
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That was a similar game. Only different factors are we have "higher stakes" involved this year & Washington is more of a name brand program.
 
#359      
SuperintendentChalmers
Birdus said:
With a few exceptions, most of the sites I have been on do not give us a chance. Altmyer is overrated, We do not have a good run game. Our defense is to porous. Etc. I love it. We are being disrespected big time and I think we play ourselves into a WIN here. Huskies fans are going to go home disappointed on Saturday.
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As far as playoff chances and national perception, what happened in Bloomington essentially counted as two losses. Here's our chance to get one back.
 
#360      
joeybcrazy13
I pray all Illinois fans have safe travels and enjoy a great game, in the name of Jesus Christ.... Amen🙏🙏🙏
 
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HailtotheChief
I think it is insane if anyone watch us and Washington Play and know what we have been without in our secondary vs IU. IU is the best team on our conference and likely the conference. We are on par with OSU and we moved the ball. We can not turn it over 3 or 4 times and expect to win but I want to play OSU again. I think we are between 2 and 5 in the conference is we play clean game. If we do that we beat Washington by 2 tds
 
#363      
Illini92and96
Dkayak said:
This is why the false perception that the SEC is the tougher conference matters. It means their conference wins and rank are considered superior, despite the SEC’s inferior head-to-head performance against the Big Ten in the NIL era.
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I would assume the playoff committee looks past the superficial rankings, which would correct for the bias? All the other conference representatives would realize how outrageous it is.
 
#365      
Mr. Tibbs
Birdus said:
With a few exceptions, most of the sites I have been on do not give us a chance. Altmyer is overrated, We do not have a good run game. Our defense is to porous. Etc. I love it. We are being disrespected big time and I think we play ourselves into a WIN here. Huskies fans are going to go home disappointed on Saturday.
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you need to change the sites you are on

Im not saying to be on all O&B homer sites, but we have a legit chance to win this game.
Likely? no but real chance to win
 
#367      
fuddrules
Mr. Tibbs said:
you need to change the sites you are on

Im not saying to be on all O&B homer sites, but we have a legit chance to win this game.
Likely? no but real chance to win
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Illinois hasn't had more than 1 on the road flop in any year under Bielema. This game should at least be close and I like the experience Illinois has over Washington down the stretch.
 
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Marshall_Lucky
tell it like it is said:
My wife just text me from her plane leaving ORD for Seattle. She said it is packed with Illini fans! She is going on up to the most northwest part, but I will in my orange and blue cheering the Illini on from home. Let's hope all the traveling Illini fans make LOTS of noise and have allot to cheer for. GO ILLINI!!!
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Waa in Seattle until today (thought about going to the game but it didn't fit the schedule) and my flight from Indy Saturday had a few illini as well

I also learned my YouTube TV app doesn't work on Canada, which is disappointing
 
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skyIdub
HailtotheChief said:
I think it is insane if anyone watch us and Washington Play and know what we have been without in our secondary vs IU. IU is the best team on our conference and likely the conference. We are on par with OSU and we moved the ball. We can not turn it over 3 or 4 times and expect to win but I want to play OSU again. I think we are between 2 and 5 in the conference is we play clean game. If we do that we beat Washington by 2 tds
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#375      
logjam
HailtotheChief said:
I think it is insane if anyone watch us and Washington Play and know what we have been without in our secondary vs IU. IU is the best team on our conference and likely the conference. We are on par with OSU and we moved the ball. We can not turn it over 3 or 4 times and expect to win but I want to play OSU again. I think we are between 2 and 5 in the conference is we play clean game. If we do that we beat Washington by 2 tds
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