Ep. 1048 - No. 22 Illinois at Purdue preview with Tom Dienhart & Joey Wagner
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Werner previews No. 22 Illinois football's rivalry game at Purdue with On3's Tom Dienhart and Illini Inquirer's Joey Wagner. Dienhart breaks down first-year head coach Barry Odom's impact and challenge and what he's seen from Purdue through four games. Werner and Wagner then answer a six-pack of questions on Illini football heading into Purdue, including talk of the offensive line, secondary and keys to beating Purdue in what some may view as a "trap game."
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| 0:47.7 | Music Today on the Illinois Inquirer podcast, let's get you ready for Illinois against Purdue, |
| 0:52.4 | one of the two protected rivalries for Illinois football along with Northwestern. |
| 0:59.1 | Feeling a little different about Illinois football after a now bounce back victory over USC 3432, |
| 1:04.4 | gets this team back on track following a 53 point loss at Indiana. |
| 1:07.4 | Big game for Luke Altmeyer got a lot of awards this week, |
| 1:12.7 | and so did David Alano following his walkoff 41-yard winner to send Illinois to victory, improved a 4-1-1-1-1 in the Big 10. Illinois has Ohio State next week on Fox, |
| 1:19.9 | 11 a.m. kickoff. Big new kickoff could be back in town. We'll see if that becomes official |
| 1:25.0 | anytime soon. So is this a trap game? Joy Wagner and I will talk about |
| 1:30.1 | Illinois's trip to Purdue, what it means for the program, whether we do think they could look |
| 1:35.2 | ahead to Ohio State, some great things about what we saw against USC, some lingering concerns, |
| 1:41.1 | especially on that defense going into this Purdue game. |
| 1:44.5 | And we get a breakdown about Purdue. |
| 1:47.4 | Tom Deanhart, who's covered Purdue for a long time for goldenblack.com, part of the On3 |
| 1:51.9 | network. |
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