In a couple days, the Illinois Fighting Illini will head into West Lafayette to battle the Purdue Boilermakers for the Purdue Cannon. In doing so, this young team will try to break a lengthy streak of losing Big Ten games.
Four years ago, the Illini carried an incredible 20-game Big Ten losing streak into Ross-Ade Stadium. It was such a long losing streak that the team looked vastly different. The team that defeated Northwestern in 2011 to win their last conference game for over two years was a run-first team with a very stout defense.