Illinois vs Michigan, Saturday, October 19th, 2:30pm CT, CBS
Husker fan here, checking in.
Glad you guys pulled it out vs Purdue and kept your good season alive!
I for one will be rooting quite strongly for you against the cheaters to the north. You've got 2 back to back tough games, but obviously @Oregon will probably the toughest one of the season.
But first....down with Michigan!
We had a super sloppy win against Rutgers but it didn't help we had 40+ MPH winds. Our defense finally showed up a bit more like we expected (they weren't bad all year, but we expected better).
I know you guys have Rutgers in Nov. While I don't think they're a bad team they're also not a great team. They do have a really good RB though (Monangai) who averages well over 100 a game. He started out gashing us pretty good in the first quarter (I think like 70 yards on 10 carries-ish) but then we shut him down the rest of the game.
Their offensive line was just ok and we got to Kaliakmanis (transfer QB from Minnesota) and he wasn't super impressive. Definitely possible to shut that offense down.
Their defense was decent, but Raiola had a terrible game with the wind. 2-9 in the 2nd half IIRC. I think if we played them under normal conditions we'd fare much butter.
As for Nebraska...as I said before you played us...our kicking game is atrocious and somehow it's gotten worse.
I think we matchup pretty well against Indiana but their offense seems pretty good (though they haven't played even a decent defense yet), so that will be interesting to see. We come in as 7pt dogs in Bloomington for the Big Noon kickoff. Should be fun, hopefully we can pull it off and get back in the top 25 (before we play @tOSU and hope to keep it close haha).
GOOD LUCK THIS WEEKEND!
Glad you guys pulled it out vs Purdue and kept your good season alive!
I for one will be rooting quite strongly for you against the cheaters to the north. You've got 2 back to back tough games, but obviously @Oregon will probably the toughest one of the season.
But first....down with Michigan!
We had a super sloppy win against Rutgers but it didn't help we had 40+ MPH winds. Our defense finally showed up a bit more like we expected (they weren't bad all year, but we expected better).
I know you guys have Rutgers in Nov. While I don't think they're a bad team they're also not a great team. They do have a really good RB though (Monangai) who averages well over 100 a game. He started out gashing us pretty good in the first quarter (I think like 70 yards on 10 carries-ish) but then we shut him down the rest of the game.
Their offensive line was just ok and we got to Kaliakmanis (transfer QB from Minnesota) and he wasn't super impressive. Definitely possible to shut that offense down.
Their defense was decent, but Raiola had a terrible game with the wind. 2-9 in the 2nd half IIRC. I think if we played them under normal conditions we'd fare much butter.
As for Nebraska...as I said before you played us...our kicking game is atrocious and somehow it's gotten worse.
I think we matchup pretty well against Indiana but their offense seems pretty good (though they haven't played even a decent defense yet), so that will be interesting to see. We come in as 7pt dogs in Bloomington for the Big Noon kickoff. Should be fun, hopefully we can pull it off and get back in the top 25 (before we play @tOSU and hope to keep it close haha).
GOOD LUCK THIS WEEKEND!
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- Sugar Grove
Bring the Loosiers back to reality on Saturday morning!
SampsonRelpenk
- Edwardsville, IL
Indiana flipped a WR commit from us this summer. Seeing as we don't play them this year, it'd be a mighty nice consolation if y'all could thump them on Saturday
Apropos. The zebras stole the game from us in Whitman's senior year: https://www.news-gazette.com/sports...cle_a5cbd0c7-fdfe-53d3-961e-de9b9f8ecb9c.html
Living in Indiana I say yes please knock the hoosiers off their high horse. I love wearing Illini gear after Purdue or Indiana get beat. Doesn't matter who beat them
How about if we talk about how Altmyer will do against Michigan. The wolverines lost a lot, and are obviously not close to what they were last year, but one thing they still have are some pretty athletic big guys up front. Can illini o line block them? If they get beat on pass pro, no matter how good Luke is it’ll be a long day, especially so if they can’t get the run going either. That’s my big concern for this week. Keeping with the kittner comparisons, the sugar bowl vs lsu, lsu was just way more physical and handled the illini. Nothing Kurt could do on his own.
Illini defense vs Michigan offense is a crap shoot. I have no idea what’ll happen. If 2nd half of Purdue shows up, Michigan will light it up no matter who is playing qb. It’ll be the game of the year for them. If it’s the d from first 5 1/2 weeks, they should be at least ok, and ok should be enough.
I think overall they’ll have their stuff together enough to play well. Still predicting an illini victory !
Illini defense vs Michigan offense is a crap shoot. I have no idea what’ll happen. If 2nd half of Purdue shows up, Michigan will light it up no matter who is playing qb. It’ll be the game of the year for them. If it’s the d from first 5 1/2 weeks, they should be at least ok, and ok should be enough.
I think overall they’ll have their stuff together enough to play well. Still predicting an illini victory !
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As a point of reference - we have beaten them six times since Ray Elliot left after the 1959 season.
JDubs football neck!!!
And end all this Looiser nonsense... please...Husker fan here, checking in.
Glad you guys pulled it out vs Purdue and kept your good season alive!
I for one will be rooting quite strongly for you against the cheaters to the north. You've got 2 back to back tough games, but obviously @Oregon will probably the toughest one of the season.
But first....down with Michigan!
We had a super sloppy win against Rutgers but it didn't help we had 40+ MPH winds. Our defense finally showed up a bit more like we expected (they weren't bad all year, but we expected better).
I know you guys have Rutgers in Nov. While I don't think they're a bad team they're also not a great team. They do have a really good RB though (Monangai) who averages well over 100 a game. He started out gashing us pretty good in the first quarter (I think like 70 yards on 10 carries-ish) but then we shut him down the rest of the game.
Their offensive line was just ok and we got to Kaliakmanis (transfer QB from Minnesota) and he wasn't super impressive. Definitely possible to shut that offense down.
Their defense was decent, but Raiola had a terrible game with the wind. 2-9 in the 2nd half IIRC. I think if we played them under normal conditions we'd fare much butter.
As for Nebraska...as I said before you played us...our kicking game is atrocious and somehow it's gotten worse.
I think we matchup pretty well against Indiana but their offense seems pretty good (though they haven't played even a decent defense yet), so that will be interesting to see. We come in as 7pt dogs in Bloomington for the Big Noon kickoff. Should be fun, hopefully we can pull it off and get back in the top 25 (before we play @tOSU and hope to keep it close haha).
GOOD LUCK THIS WEEKEND!
GL!
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ptgrd23
- orange county CA
I started going to Illini games in the 60's. Only 6X in my lifetime have we beaten Michigan. I thought we had them in 2022 but spygate was probably the margin of victory.
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It suddenly all makes senseJDubs football neck!!!
Beat Michigan!
We'll do our bestIndiana flipped a WR commit from us this summer. Seeing as we don't play them this year, it'd be a mighty nice consolation if y'all could thump them on Saturday
