Illinois should be good. Illinois is good. They are very good, in fact, but they aren’t winning much. Illinois is 2-6 with two wins over Iowa in the first weekend of the season and losses to #1 Wisconsin, #10 Penn State and #19 Ohio State. They missed playing Northwestern and Michigan State due to covid. Dang! Illinois picked the wrong weekends to have matches postponed!! Those were competitive matches for them that they could have expected to win.
Nebraska is traveling TO Illinois this weekend. That fact is important in Coach’s playbook so we need to mention it here.