** 2022 Opponent Previews : Illinois (Game 8) **

[Mavric]

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[Mavric]

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[Undone]

Illinois' defense seems built to stop the run. Their only loss was to really more of a passing team (Indiana).

Indiana had one WR with 156 yards & another with 109 in that game.

The key seems to be throwing on them.

 

[rdg25]

Another win by Illinois over a favored team.  26-14 over Minnesota.  

 

[Mavric]

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[Dogs In A Pile]

Looking at the updated NCAA stats today and it is somewhat scary the defenses we'll be facing in the last 5 games, especially considering our struggles on the OL.

Points per game allowed.

•   #1 Illinois - 8.86 ppg
  
•   #3 Iowa - 9.83 ppg
  
•   #4 Minnesota - 11.67 ppg
  
•   #5 Michigan - 12.14 ppg
  
• #33 Wisconsin - 21.57 ppg
  

 

[BigRedBuster]

Awesome.  I'm going and this works great for me.

 

[Stone Cold]

This is such a important game, way more important than Purdie.  Our house, we have a shot.  We need beat ilini and have purdue lose out.

 

[BigRedBuster]

This is such a important game, way more important than Purdie.  Our house, we have a shot.  We need beat ilini and have purdue lose out.

And.....if we don't win the west, I want Purdue to win.  We need to win this game.

 

[Mavric]

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[Mavric]

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[BigRedBuster]

Ok…..but he hasn’t played our dominating front  7. 

 

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[Danimal]

Was really disappointed by our tackling against Purdue. I hope we're really working on it with the extra prep time. Getting Reimers back should help. 

 

[Husker in WI]

Was really disappointed by our tackling against Purdue. I hope we're really working on it with the extra prep time. Getting Reimers back should help. 

It was pretty atrocious. I do think some of it was being down Reimer, Henrich (although he tends to be iffy tackling), and Buford - plus Newsome didn't look 100%. Some solid schemed up things too - I think Jimari Butler has a bright future, but covering the RB one on one in the flat is a mismatch in favor of the RB. But regardless of who is in there it needs to get a lot better.