spermophilus
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We shall see if there is movement from there.
I’d bet Illinois to cover
Very aggressive. I think we win, maybe by 14, but I wouldn’t touch that line with GWG’s money.
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get to 5-0 and generate some excitement for a fun home game environment versus Huskers.
Huskers blind faith in Frost has to be wavering.
Path to 8-0 is wide open!
Good call. Illinois is ranked higher in the talent rankings.
I'm worried that the Illini rush offense and the Gopher rush defense will keep prevent the Gophers from having anything resembling a comfortable win.
If Gophs put together a complete game, I think they win by at least 2 TDs
Don't they know we only play one possession games?
I'm worried that the Illini rush offense and the Gopher rush defense will keep prevent the Gophers from having anything resembling a comfortable win.
I'm worried that the Illini rush offense and the Gopher rush defense will keep prevent the Gophers from having anything resembling a comfortable win.
I don't recall any part of our team making comfortable wins. Maybe the pass offense last week, on its own. But otherwise our pass defense isn't great (we give up way too many 3rd and longs) and our rush offense and special teams are nothing great.
"Maybe" the Gopher pass offense made 'comfortable wins'?
What would you need to see in order to label it 'definitely comfortable'? What kind of numbers would they have to put up?
I think it’d probably be about 50/50I think most would agree, if they had to bet that line they’d take the Illini. I hope the odds makers are more than right in the Gophers favor.
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That line is way too far in our favor. I could see -10.
Reggie Corbin scares me, but Peters is pretty inaccurate. Also, Illinois defense is giving up 400 yards a game to very bad teams. I think we should be passing all over them, and that will open up the run game a bit. Similar to the Purdue game. But if our defense improves on its tackling issues from the Purdue game, I don’t see this being a close contest. I think the score will resemble the Purdue game minus the bad 4th quarter.
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So, kinda like the 414 we gave up to Purdue's offense led by their back-up QB without their two best receivers? or the 646 we gave up to the Illini last year? In all fairness, after giving up 207 yards in the 1st Quarter last year, i can see why we feel that we'll simply blow them out of the building by showing up.
We should beat this team, but then again we should have spanked them last year. PJ Fleck coached teams have not shown they can beat teams with speed on the edge, and this is the first of many teams we play with just that in the Big 10. This is a bigger test than many seem to think it is, in my opinion. Until we show we can deal with inferior teams with speed, I'll be less optimistic than most, I guess.