Wow. What a breath of fresh air.
I don’t think any of our writers would have predicted this.
Going into the season, and I can speak for all of us, winning one of these three games — Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota — would have gotten us to a bowl game. Now there is a chance, when you bring in Nebraska, to go 4-0 against the quadrangle of hate.
The Illini are sitting at 5-1 and one game away from a bowl game and October has only just begun.
It truly is spooky season.
I just can’t get this tweet of my head:
u2705 Wisconsin
u2705 Iowa
Illinois has beaten those two teams in the same season for the first time since 1989.