Week 14 Polls - Illinois #22 in AP Poll

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Illini in Italy
Oh yeah!

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Mr. Tibbs
Illini2010-11 said:
Win at Wrigley Saturday, and it is highly likely the Illini will be ranked in top 20 for bowl game. Quite a great season to this point.
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agree
and thoughts begin to focus on how
- to capitalize on it for recruiting for some spots left in 2025 class
- getting in position to win at least 7 games next year and every year

we need to get sell outs every game so we can firmly entrench ourselves in tier 2 in the league
 
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Illini2010-11
Mr. Tibbs said:
agree
and thoughts begin to focus on how
- to capitalize on it for recruiting for some spots left in 2025 class
- getting in position to win at least 7 games next year and every year

we need to get sell outs every game so we can firmly entrench ourselves in tier 2 in the league
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I agree, but that will be a challenge. I see 2 very good opportunities for true sellout (Ohio State and USC). The other games will depend on how the team is performing. We are trending in the right direction. It cannot be stated enough how much the end of Zook era and the Beckman clownshow set back fan enthusiasm and attendance trends.
 
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TheodoreRex
Interestingly, our wins are starting to look pretty solid:
Kansas (has won 3 in a row against ranked opponents) 5-6 and could end 6-6
MSU 5-6 with a chance to end 6-6
Michigan 6-5
Nebraska 6-5
Rutgers 6-5

No great win, but 3 good wins, 2 solid wins. I'd maybe put the win at Nebraska as a very good win instead of just a good one.
 
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Illini2010-11
TheodoreRex said:
Interestingly, our wins are starting to look pretty solid:
Kansas (has won 3 in a row against ranked opponents) 5-6 and could end 6-6
MSU 5-6 with a chance to end 6-6
Michigan 6-5
Nebraska 6-5
Rutgers 6-5

No great win, but 3 good wins, 2 solid wins. I'd maybe put the win at Nebraska as a very good win instead of just a good one.
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Given how many close one-score losses Kansas has taken this year, that could very well be a 8 to 9 win team. I personally believe the Nebraska win is best (given a true road game), followed closely by Kansas (who has a great QB that we effectively shutdown). Those two September wins truly sparked a great season.
 
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illinoistradition
Illini2010-11 said:
I agree, but that will be a challenge. I see 2 very good opportunities for true sellout (Ohio State and USC). The other games will depend on how the team is performing. We are trending in the right direction. It cannot be stated enough how much the end of Zook era and the Beckman clownshow set back fan enthusiasm and attendance trends.
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If they can get up to 40-45k season ticket holders, it can happen. It’s time for them to finally make the East upper deck tickets a reasonable season ticket price. Those are the ones featured during games, and that needs to become important to show a good crowd.
 
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Illini2010-11
illinoistradition said:
If they can get up to 40-45k season ticket holders, it can happen. It’s time for them to finally make the East upper deck tickets a reasonable season ticket price. Those are the ones featured during games, and that needs to become important to show a good crowd.
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Those seats are already very reasonably priced...they were $99 for season tickets this year in corner sections that look vacant. I have front row in section 202 for that price. You can't really get much lower than that for season tickets, unless you expect the DIA to practically give them away.
 
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Mr. Tibbs
Illini2010-11 said:
Given how many close one-score losses Kansas has taken this year, that could very well be a 8 to 9 win team. I personally believe the Nebraska win is best (given a true road game), followed closely by Kansas (who has a great QB that we effectively shutdown). Those two September wins truly sparked a great season.
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agree 100%
both wind gave Luke confidence
 
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lstewart53x3
TheodoreRex said:
Interestingly, our wins are starting to look pretty solid:
Kansas (has won 3 in a row against ranked opponents) 5-6 and could end 6-6
MSU 5-6 with a chance to end 6-6
Michigan 6-5
Nebraska 6-5
Rutgers 6-5

No great win, but 3 good wins, 2 solid wins. I'd maybe put the win at Nebraska as a very good win instead of just a good one.
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Now, imagine we were a bad team this year and lost each of those games. Their current records would've been:

Kansas: 6-5
MSU: 6-5
Michigan: 7-4
Nebraska: 7-4
Rutgers: 7-4

Had we lost those 5 along with our 3 actual losses, all 8 games lost would have been to bowl teams.
 
#15      
1m4tr
If we hadn’t lost to Minnesota, where do you think we would be ranked?
 
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kyillinifan
I got two season tickets in section 122 way up high. Very nice people around us. I hope the price doesn’t go up. USC n OSU coming to town.
 
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illinoistradition
Illini2010-11 said:
Those seats are already very reasonably priced...they were $99 for season tickets this year in corner sections that look vacant. I have front row in section 202 for that price. You can't really get much lower than that for season tickets, unless you expect the DIA to practically give them away.
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Didn’t realize they were that cheap there. The single game prices are all higher than the horseshoe, which made me think they had higher season ticket prices too. DIA can’t do more than that. It’s time for fans to step up—can’t get better prices for the success this team is having.
 
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1970 John
Get your seats now...and be sure to find out how much you need to donate to I Fund/Icon to keep the seats/parking you have/want.
 
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ktal
Illini2010-11 said:
Those seats are already very reasonably priced...they were $99 for season tickets this year in corner sections that look vacant. I have front row in section 202 for that price. You can't really get much lower than that for season tickets, unless you expect the DIA to practically give them away.
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This. Incredibly reasonably priced. I think I only spent a couple hundred bucks for each of my season tickets, and I think it's the best view in the house. But if you don't own wind-proof gear, don't even consider the cold weather games.
 
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Fly Illini Fly!
1m4tr said:
And then we’d be kicking ourselves about how the PSU game ended.
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JMO... if that game were at home, I think we'd have a serious chance to win it. And it was more competitive than people will give it credit for.

The Oregon game is really the only "no shot game" that was this year. I say pretty good given how challenging the slate looked pre-season.
 
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lstewart53x3
Fly Illini Fly! said:
JMO... if that game were at home, I think we'd have a serious chance to win it. And it was more competitive than people will give it credit for.

The Oregon game is really the only "no shot game" that was this year. I say pretty good given how challenging the slate looked pre-season.
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I would’ve liked our chances better had that game been a home, but we got smoked. We’re fortunate the score was as close as it was:

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