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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 1031 - Hits & misses from Illini's 52-3 win over WIU

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C

Football, Sports

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner react to Illinois football's 52-3 season-opening win over Western Illinois and provide the biggest hits and misses from the game. The guys then look ahead to next week's game at Duke.

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Music Welcome in to the online choir podcast, our first post-game podcast, live on our YouTube channel here.

0:52.5

We appreciate all you guys joining us late at night.

0:55.1

It's almost 1130 here, Central Time. And this went about exactly how we thought it would be in week one as Illinois takes down

1:01.2

Western Illinois, 52 to 3.

1:02.9

In fact, Joy Wagner, yes, I'm going to be insufferable about it.

1:06.3

This is exactly how I thought it would go.

1:08.2

Nail the prediction, Joey.

1:09.8

Nailed it. Get your punt return bowl take out of the way now. Let Nailed the prediction, Joey. Nailed it.

1:15.3

Get your punt return bull take out of the way now. Let's get the Werner victory lap.

1:20.0

See if we can run off some viewers here who don't want to hear your boating.

1:25.8

Well, every blind squirrel finds a nut. You throw out a bunch of these and you get one right every once in a while. But this went exactly how you thought it would be, Joey. Just dominance for the most part, a team that looked like the number 12 team of the country, for the most part, and we'll dive into our hits and misses, the good things with the hits, the bad things with the misses. There are a few things that Brett Bume was going to have on his teach tape out of this one.

1:48.0

But, you know, for the most part, really clean first half for Illinois.

1:50.6

Late in that half, there were some issues.

1:54.8

Third quarter was pretty uninspiring outside of Hank Beatty's punt return touchdown.

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