Northwestern will host a reeling Illinois team on Senior Day. Illinois started the season 3-2, but the Fighting Illini have lost five of six and haven’t looked particularly competitive in doing so. It feels like we write this sad preview year after year. Here we are again; below you can find three non-HAT related things to know about Illinois:
Illinois just suffered a historically-bad loss
Iowa came into Champaign and absolutely drubbed Illinois, 63-0. The nine-touchdown deficit matched the worst loss in Illinois history, a 63-0 defeat at the hands of UChicago in 1906.