It says it opened at +1, but I don't see anywhere where it was actually ever offered at +1.
And yes, the lines do move in response to betting patterns, but again, that's money coming in from extraordinarily sophisticated professional gamblers, not Teddy Greenstein's bachelor party pouring in their journalism salaries against the Illini.
I know it's annoying when I belabor my point, so I'll stop here, I promise:
It doesn't compute for people that we could be 6-6, then 5-7, then hire Lovie freakin' Smith and somehow be an underdog at home to a MAC school like we're Kansas. It sounds like something out of the darkest depths of a Loren Tate "Illinois will always suck for all eternity and there's nothing we can do about it" column. I get that. But that is our present reality and I encourage our fans to anchor themselves in reality. The progress will come if we continue to invest and make the right decisions. We are not Kansas.