Good afternoon. Welcome in to the Illinois Inquirer podcast, post-game podcast, and boy, this one changed.

He went back and forth, but Illinois pulls it out 34 32 over number 21

USC that's what we call a bounce back win is david alano drills a 41 yard field goal as time expires

to lift illinois out of snatching a loss from the jaws of victory there for a while.

They're up 14.

Clove Valentine fumbles inside the five-yard line.

The second fumble Illinois had inside or close to the goal line.

And Illinois finds a way to bounce back.

Luke Altmire leads the line on the drive.

But most importantly, they ran the ball extremely well. Big bounce back for the offensive line that we will get into. So big game for Illinois football as they get their season back on track, Joey. And you were on the field as the students rushed the field. Give us a little bit of what that was like. Yeah, it was elation.

I think a lot of, I think some of the students were just happy to be partying still,

a party that probably started sometime at like 4 p.m. yesterday and has carried into today.

You know, you run into a couple coaches, couple players out there, and it's a big win.

And the way it went, you know, a couple sides of, who, okay, got out of, got out of that one, but it's a big win. And the way it went, you know, a couple sides of, who, okay, got out of that one.

But it's a really big bounceback win for this program.

I think everybody felt that.

And Illinois needed to come back with that kind of performance.

And, you know, you worried with an opponent like USC that, hey, they could still play

much, much better than they played against

Indiana and still lose. Nearly happened, Jeremy, but you sneak out of there with David Alano's

foot. Well, Joey, the first hit as we go over hits and misses of this has to be Joey

Wagner's prediction. If we were for Lincoln Riley's two-point conversion call, which they got

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