Welcome in to the O'Anne Inquirer podcast, Jeremy Warner, O'Anne Enquirer publisher here.

And let's dive into Illinois football's first big test of the season is they had on the

road to Duke, who won nine games last year in Mani Diaz's first year as head coach at Duke. Illinois

familiar with Mandy Diaz from his work as the Penn State Defense Coordinator. And if you go all

the way back, the Louisiana Tech defensive coordinator in the 2014, what was that bull, the heart of Dallas bowl, where Illinois was beat

in that one to go six and seven on the year, Houston Bates, the former line I with a huge game

against Illinois. But yeah, so there's some history here. Luke Altmire, Barry Loney did not do

very well. But the Penn State personnel is not at Duke, but Duke is a good team.

They return a lot on defense, including on the edge, in the defensive backfield,

and they return a lot on the offensive line.

They also got one of the more talented quarterbacks in the country to transfer to them

with a big payday, Darian Mensa, a very good quarterback at Duke, who will test this Illinois defense, but the

defense expects to be dominant.

That's what Aaron Henry said.

So what's the game plan for them?

And Darian Mensa, who can really push the ball down the field.

Plus, this Duke defense is very aggressive as most Mani Diaz defenses are. So,

Joy Wagner and I break down our picks to click in this one, our bold predictions. We also

break down what we think of these matchups, who we think is really important in this game.

But first, we get insight on Duke, a team that is really good. Who knew? Illinois schedules a non-conference opponent

a decade ago, and they turn out to be really good when Illinois plays them. An ACC opponent,

ACC had a pretty good week last week. The crowd on a hot day will be interesting to see what

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