Michael Berns: The Gophers and Illini have something in common: Both have just one Big Ten win this season. For how injury-ridden Minnesota is, they’ve actually been better than expected. Minnesota’s confidence is high after last Friday’s dramatic, comeback win over Indiana. Illinois is coming off of another painful, lowest-of-lows loss. The Illini D is historically bad and it shows again. Minnesota 30, Illinois 14
Thumpasaurus: My predictions haven’t made it into this article series lately, but in all my predictions since the Rutgers game, I’ve predicted Illinois to lose convincingly and they’ve managed to do MUCH worse.