Illinois football is coming off a big win on Saturday against Purdue. This isn’t a big win because Purdue is a juggernaut, but it is more of a big win because it ended a losing streak and got the Illini back on track.
Before this win against the Boilermakers, Illinois was on a three game losing streak. You can attribute many factors to them losing. Ferguson was injured in all three of those games. We also played against three pretty solid teams in which two of them were on the road.
We can make whatever excuses we want too, but losing three in a row was a problem.