The statement above is a fact. The Illini did something on Saturday that had never been done in the long history of the football program. To get to that big of a deficit, the team had to be playing bad to begin, though.
Illinois started the game off okay. We were only down 7-3 after the first couple of drives. But the defense started to get shredded and a turnover killed the Orange and Blue. Michigan State would take advantage of all the Illinois miscues. The Spartans would have a 28-3 lead less than five minutes into the second quarter.