In 2007, Juice Williams and Rashard Mendenhall spent 8:09 tearing out Ohio State's heart.
It wasn't too long ago that Illinois Football, this week's opponent for the Ohio State Buckeyes, was a good-to-very-good football team. This isn't hyperbole! You have to go a little bit back in the history, but Illinois fielded a Rose Bowl team in this century, in 2008. Crazier things have happened.
But let's go back to 2007, the year and season that allowed an Illinois team that you or I probably remember, to make it to the Rose Bowl on the first day of 2008.