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Pregame: Illinois vs South Carolina, Tuesday, December 31st, 2:00pm CT, ABC
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Great flick. If it had to be one movie, at least it was one that was worth it. Best cinematic representation of a high school football coach imo. Imagine if he coached the illini o or d lines.
#2 is bud Kilmer
Loudest basketball game I've ever attended - Arizona vs. Illinois @Rosemont
Loudest football game I've ever attended - Illinois vs. LSU in Sugar Bowl (and it wasn't the IL fans).
No other bball or fball game come close to noise level to either of the above.
I was at that LSU fiasco too. That LSU crowd was loud and obnoxious. If I heard “Tiger bait” one more time I would have lost it
ptgrd23
- orange county CA
Vegas thinks South Carolina will blow us out (10 point spread).
While SEC is formidable we are talking about South Carolina not Alabama.
B10 put 4 teams in CFP- Oregon, Ohio State, PSU and Indiana. I think they can play with Texas, Georgia and Tennessee .
Also if Pat Bryant is only optout for Illinois, South Carolina appears more likely to have quite a few more.
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While SEC is formidable we are talking about South Carolina not Alabama.
B10 put 4 teams in CFP- Oregon, Ohio State, PSU and Indiana. I think they can play with Texas, Georgia and Tennessee .
Also if Pat Bryant is only optout for Illinois, South Carolina appears more likely to have quite a few more.
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That team and this team now are two very different things..hottest team in the country. I don't think there were many people hoping to see them in the playoffs. Not the most talented, but the hottest team and firing on all cylinders.
South Carolina lost at Alabama - 25-27. There's not much difference when both teams are full strength.
chiefini
- Rockford, Illinois
Agree. Attended both, and in my opinion, you are correct.
chiefini
- Rockford, Illinois
My husband almost did lose it on Bourbon Street when a drunk LSU fan (is that redundant?) got in his face and pointed a finger at his chest yelling, “Tiger bait.” I had to hold him back. I could just see him be the one to get arrested and us missing the game.
ptgrd23
- orange county CA
Illini also played well at end of season. We won 5 of our last 7 games. One of 2 losses was at #1 in CFP Oregon. 2 of our 3 losses were to CFP teams. Our signature wins against bowl teams were Michigan, @ Nebraska, @ Rutgers.
South Carolina lost 3 games to bowl teams - none of those teams made CFP. They beat weakest CFP team Clemson. They had one more signature wins vs bowl teams - Texas AM, Missouri, Vanderbuilt and Oklahoma.
South Carolina lost 3 games to bowl teams - none of those teams made CFP. They beat weakest CFP team Clemson. They had one more signature wins vs bowl teams - Texas AM, Missouri, Vanderbuilt and Oklahoma.
89illini
- Grand Rapids, MI
Ditto
NASchamp
- Atlanta
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
This is a good example of the value of SRS rankings. 1983 UCLA (7-4-1) is considered a better team than their 1984 team (9-3) because the '83 team played a hellacious schedule. They started 0-3-1 because they started the season with losses to teams that finished the season #4 (10-1 Georgia), #2 (10-1 Nebraska), and #7 (10-1 BYU). They also played five of their eight conference games on the road (why?).
Too much partying at the Playboy Mansion.
BZuppke
- Plainfield
That’s the legend.
SuperMetroid
- Evanston
Not sure we could find a matchup against a team with more similar historical numbers than South Carolina. We've even had the same record for 3 years running:
Illinois v South Carolina
Illinois v South Carolina
DeonThomas
- South Carolina
Let me echo your comments, for a college football game at least. LSU is the common denominator. For me it was Clemson vs LSU in the January 2020 Natty --- at the New Orleans Super Dome. And it was indeed the LSU fan base generating 95% of the noise.
However, the loudest venue EVER was a Pro Football game: Rams vs Tampa Bay Bucs in the 1999-2000 NFC Championship game. The home crowd fans of the Greatest Show on Turf stood and screamed at the top of their (our) lungs for the entire 60 minutes. Never did sit down. Deafening!
Loren Tate recently addressed this debacle. He said there were rumors floating around the team hotel the day before the game that we were going on probation after the game (including a bowl ban). Tate opined that the rumors were the cause of the teams' horrific performance the next day.
We too were in attendance at the 2002 Sugar Bowl. And yes, the noise level of the respective contingent's was quite different. But, I will say this, in spite of being outnumbered 3-1 I was proud of the noise we made in spite of the numbers difference! They knew we were there, that's for sure.
We too were sick of having "tiger bait" screamed at us, sometimes from a 1/2 block away. That got seriously old by game time!
Anyone who attended this game knows it was about 35 degrees and raining on New Year's Day. We were walking past the motor home lot near the Super Dome and we were toting our Illini umbrella as it was raining hard and steady. As we walked past a group of the LSU people standing next to a motor home on our way to the Quarter one in the group yelled THANKS FOR BRINGING THE !!!!!! WEATHER DOWN HERE WITH YOU!! This was before the game but I'd had enough by that time so we stopped and I turned towards them and said something to the effect IF THE BIG 10, IN THEIR INFINITE WISDOM, HADN'T GIVEN AWAY THE ROSE BOWL WE'D BE IN PASADENA WHERE IT'S 80 DEGREES INSTEAD OF THIS !!!! HOLE!! Surprising enough they didn't have much of a retort and I felt a bit vindicated after being screamed at for 2 days!!
We were at that game. Beautiful day, one of the most embarrassing losses I ever witnessed in person. The way it turned out had Illinois been able to beat UCLA convincingly they might have ended up #3 behind Miami & Nebraska. They had an outside chance of leapfrogging Nebraska, as well, but that would have been a long shot. They entered the Rose Bowl ranked #4. And as it was they ended up dropping to #10 in the final poll.
When the Chief came out at halftime, it was quite the spectacle to behold. What a great experience as a kid!
And yes, the "tiger bait" chants got very old. Kind of a weird thing to continuously say from one adult to another over and over again...
And yes, the "tiger bait" chants got very old. Kind of a weird thing to continuously say from one adult to another over and over again...
chiefini
- Rockford, Illinois
We were at that one as well. That’s why we’re not going to the Citrus Bowl: every bowl game we’ve gone to (five!), Illinois has lost. Our Illini friends have banned us from ever going to another.
Entirely possible.. lol. I am just glad to be having this conversation.. so glad to be in a relevant bowl playing an SEC team.Maybe they’ll cool down in the next 3.5 weeks?
LSU fans are some of the worst. They deserve all of the mediocre football BK has through there so far.
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