The game starts in 22 minutes. I’m home for an Illini game for the first time since Louisiana-Lafayette in 2008. At least I think that’s the last game I missed. Feels like I might have missed an FCS game in there somewhere, like Eastern or something. But I think that was maybe 2006 or so. [...]
First off, I want to say something about Corey Lewis. Tim Beckman said that Lewis will likely play tomorrow. If he does, there’s a 44% chance I’ll tear up a bit. Lewis was our first string right tackle coming out of the 2009 season, but he tore his ACL in the Spring Game in April [...]
This one kind of stretches the boundaries of “adjustments”. It’s more of an “if we don’t get this fixed, we won’t win another game” thing. But it’s so vital to our success that it had to be on this list. It’s very simple: we can’t force our opponent into field goal attempts. We’ve allowed 21 [...]
Turnovers are football. Of the top-25 teams in Turnover Margin in college football, only SMU (3-4) has a losing record. The other 24 teams all have winning records, with 20 of them having 2 losses or less. And of the bottom 25 teams in Turnover Margin (including us at #95), only Texas A&M, Nebraska, and [...]
A quick refresher on this series. After the Michigan loss, I stated that the season was still salvageable. Not bowl salvageable, but not a complete loss, either. Strange as it may sound, my original season prediction of 5-6 going into the Northwestern game is still possible. Our first three Big Ten opponents are a combined [...]
