Week 7 Games

ohioillini77 · Oct 10, 2025

Rutgers defense stinks. Washington not great either.

Fly Illini Fly! · Oct 10, 2025

PleaseMakeABowlGame said:
I think sweeping Maryland/Rutgers will be harder than beating Washinton (though every game is losable).

Rutgers defense is not stopping Illinois.

Red77sng · Oct 10, 2025

Illinois defense isn’t stopping Washington offense

Brosky · Oct 11, 2025

lstewart53x3 said:
How a team performs in one game isn’t always a good indicator of how they’ll perform in the next.

We got beat by 53 points one game and beat a top 10 metric team the next.

The Indiana/Iowa game has very little to do with how Indiana will perform against Oregon.

I see it being a close game.

Maybe so, but I'd rather see an Oregon blowout.

IlliniFaninHoosierLand · Oct 11, 2025

Today's top games (in addition to OSU/Illini) include Alabama-Missouri and Indiana-Oregon.

Today's schedule among the state schools:
-Noon, ESPN+: NIU at Eastern Michigan
-2:00 PM, ESPN+: Gardner-Webb at EIU (104th Homecoming in Charleston), WIU at UT-Martin
-2:30 PM, ESPN+: SIU at North Dakota State
-6:00 PM, ESPN+: ISU at Murray State

Fly Illini Fly! · Oct 11, 2025

Something's different at UCLA.

Pikeillinifan · Oct 11, 2025

How bad of a coach was Foster at UCLA?

IlliniShelt · Oct 11, 2025

Pikeillinifan said:
How bad of a coach was Foster at UCLA?

The answer is a lot

mattcoldagelli · Oct 11, 2025

Pikeillinifan said:
How bad of a coach was Foster at UCLA?

Just opened this thread to ask what type of Munchausen by proxy situation Deshaun Foster had going at UCLA

EyeoftheIllini · Oct 11, 2025

mattcoldagelli said:
Just opened this thread to ask what type of Munchausen by proxy situation Deshaun Foster had going at UCLA

The same here, but not as creatively as you did.

Who is the interim coach? Seems like a lot of times keeping the interim doesn’t work out well, but the turnaround has been crazy. And these haven’t been gimmes. MSU isn’t great, but at their house. Keeps this up and have to think he deserves the tag removed.

skyIdub · Oct 11, 2025

Gotta say...duck on a Harley entrance is.....an entrance.

Fly Illini Fly! · Oct 11, 2025

We were more competitive against Ohio State than Michigan State against UCLA.

LJ22 · Oct 11, 2025

Pikeillinifan said:
Throw the Indiana game out, I will say we looked 100x better than we did vs Oregon last year. We looked like we belonged on the field, vs Oregon we looked outmatched.

I hate the loss and the self inflicted wounds, but we have a good football team.

I know I'm supposed to think our game doesn't look as bad if Indiana just beats everyone, but I can't bring myself to care. I hope Oregon demolishes them.

BWBW · Oct 11, 2025

I wish our running backs hit the hole as fast as Oregon's RB.

LarryGotFouled · Oct 11, 2025

wow - refs giving Oregon the Mich / OSU treatment. Incredible.

Detasseler6 · Oct 11, 2025

Indiana just had an obvious PI no-call. Maybe it's no-call weekend (for big ten top teams).

Fly Illini Fly! · Oct 11, 2025

Penn State is simply not that great.

HailtotheChief · Oct 11, 2025

RabidDawgClassic said:
I would prefer we finish 10-2 (obviously), get a playoff spot and lose first round than go to a bowl game and win. The rationale is that just making the playoffs is the first step before competing in future playoffs. If Indiana were to finish 10-2, they would likely get greater consideration based on their appearance last year. Let’s win out, sneak in and go from there.

I'm not sure Indiana will lose any games.

Pikeillinifan · Oct 11, 2025

Oregon might not win this one, not sure how I feel about that yet.

Pikeillinifan · Oct 11, 2025

Fly Illini Fly! said:
Penn State is simply not that great.

For the talent they have, they are really not good at all.

Oracle21 · Oct 11, 2025

Wow IU kicker made 2 straight 58 yard FGs

the juiceman cometh · Oct 11, 2025

HailtotheChief said:
I'm not sure Indiana will lose any games.

If they hang on to win today, the only real question is whether they're getting a bye or not. And even then I'd be surprised if the answer ends up being no.

RML · Oct 11, 2025

LJ22 said:
I know I'm supposed to think our game doesn't look as bad if Indiana just beats everyone, but I can't bring myself to care. I hope Oregon demolishes them.

The more they win, the quicker their coach moves on.

FGCUIllini · Oct 11, 2025

RML said:
The more they win, the quicker their coach moves on.

Thinking the same thing. I know it’s been discussed in the coaching carousel thread. But if UI pulls this off, you have to believe Cigg will be the hottest coach on every AD's hit list for open positions this off-season. Lastly, I know others think because of his age, he wouldn’t jump from IU, but I think his ego/personality says otherwise.

the juiceman cometh · Oct 11, 2025

FGCUIllini said:
Thinking the same thing. I know it’s been discussed in the coaching carousel thread. But if UI pulls this off, you have to believe Cigg will be the hottest coach on every AD's hit list for open positions this off-season. Lastly, I know others think because of his age, he wouldn’t jump from IU, but I think his ego/personality says otherwise.

Assuming IU were to match any competing offers, which they absolutely would, why would he move?

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