Ep. 1035 - Hits & misses from Illini football's 45-19 win at Duke
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner break down the positives and negatives from Illinois football's 45-19 win at Duke. The guys discuss some first-half struggles, second-half dominance and some standout performances and key parts of the game.
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| 0:44.9 | Music Welcome in to the online inquire podcast. It is Jeremy Warner, Joey Wagner. |
| 0:46.6 | We are in Durham, North Carolina, where we're going to learn a lot about Illinois football. |
| 0:52.6 | And for Illinois football fans, it was a good learning because Illinois took care of business, 4519. It was a close one at halftime. It felt like you were very fortunate to be up 14 to 13, though you missed some opportunities as well. But it felt like Duke was kind of controlling that game at the line of scrimmage. But boy, what a second half, Joey. 31 to 6 advantage for Illinois. |
| 1:13.1 | Just ran away from this one. |
| 1:14.3 | Five takeaways for the line night defense |
| 1:16.8 | and special teams. |
| 1:17.7 | I should throw that in there. |
| 1:18.9 | But Luke Altmyer, strong performance, |
| 1:20.9 | 296 yards, three touchdowns. |
| 1:23.7 | We get a lot of the running backs involved. |
| 1:25.6 | But Hank Beatty turning into a star in his senior year, sets another career high in receiving yards, 128 yards, but also ran for a touchdown out of the wildcat. |
| 1:35.2 | We will break down the hits and misses of this one, but the biggest takeaway, Joey, only looked apart. |
| 1:41.5 | You know, maybe not for a whole 60 minutes, but they looked the part of a number 11 team going on the road against a dangerous Duke offense. |
| 1:49.3 | And I'm still pretty impressed by Dary Metsa after this one. |
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