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So Much To Talk About

So Much To Talk About

7-3. Winning season locked up before the end of the season for only the fifth time in the last 30 years. Playing for a better bowl game instead of playing for a bowl game. 22-point November victory over Michigan State. All with the third-youngest team in the P4. There is

So What If...

So What If...

There's a part of all of this I don't think I explained very well last week. And by "all of this" I mean this season-long "how I use these NERDstats to evaluate where we are/where we might be going" topic I&

So How Does This Compare To Other Seasons?

So How Does This Compare To Other Seasons?

When traveling I have a lot of time to think. And in the fall, I'm always thinking about Illini Football. Therefore, while traveling to our latest Big Ten game – a game that took place 2,135 miles from Memorial Stadium – I had a lot of time to think

So How Did We Get Here?

So How Did We Get Here?

I have so much to say in this article. I honestly think it will take me at least 10 hours to write it. I spent three hours yesterday just researching one tiny piece of this. I mean, I have an entire outline written out (I've done that maybe

So Is This The Season Of Luck?

So Is This The Season Of Luck?

First off, a round of applause for Holly for that photo above. And for the photo attached to Nathan's article yesterday. And the photo attached to my article on Saturday night/Sunday morning. She's killing it this year. It's time to NERDstat again. This

So Did Anything Change While We Were Off?

So Did Anything Change While We Were Off?

This isn't really an official NERDstats post because this was a bye week. The only adjustments to the NERDstats came from other teams around the Big Ten, not from anything Illinois did over the weekend. There are some slight adjustments based on who we played (Nebraska did X

So Thankful For This Bye Week

So Thankful For This Bye Week

It probably sounds dumb to say this given that I'm just a guy who covers the team, not a guy who has to coach or play on this team. The players and coaches are putting in 90-hour weeks and here I am saying "man, I need a