PISCATAWAY -- Look in the mirror, Rutgers.
Or, better yet, just look across the field today to achieve the same effect.
Rutgers and Illinois are both two years removed from a bowl berth, with defensive-minded first-year head coaches looking to start from scratch and erase the memories of scandal left behind by their respective predecessors.
NJ.com caught up with Illinois beat writer Bob Asmussen of the Champaign News-Gazette for a peak behind enemy lines:
Q: What's been the reaction to Lovie Smith's arrival at Illinois? It seemed like that hire kind of came out of nowhere in the offseason.