Ep. 1062 - Illinois vs. Rutgers preview with Bobby Deren & Joey Wagner
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Werner previews Saturday's Illinois vs. Rutgers game with ScarletNation.com's Bobby Deren and Illini Inquirer's Joey Wagner. Deren discusses Rutgers season so far, their potent passing attack, struggling defense and the matchup with Illinois. Werner and Wagner then answer a six-pack of questions about the Illini, including needed changes to the defense.
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| 0:56.0 | But favorable schedule ahead, it all starts with 4 and 4 Rutgers, 1 and 4 in the Big 10 |
| 1:01.7 | are the Scarlet Knights coming to Champaign for an 11 a.m. kickoff on Saturday on NBC. |
| 1:08.4 | Rutgers feeling a little bit better about itself. |
| 1:10.1 | After a comeback win over Purdue. They get in the |
| 1:13.1 | win column in the Big Ten end of four game slide. Meanwhile, Illinois, especially the defense, |
| 1:17.9 | looking at their wounds after Washington took care of them out in Seattle, back-to-back losses |
| 1:22.5 | for the Atlanta against Ohio State and Washington. They played some of the best offenses in the country. |
| 1:28.8 | Ruckers, pretty good passing attack. So does Illinois. These are two similar teams in that the |
| 1:32.6 | passing attacks are great. The defenses are not. Of course, Illinois with a couple way more |
| 1:37.8 | impressive wins than Ruckers has had so far this year with USC and Duke. But a Big Ten battle for |
| 1:44.1 | Illinois and they need to bounce back in a big |
| 1:45.9 | way to have a strong finish to this season. Still a lot ahead of them and eight wins season. |
| 1:51.3 | They haven't done that back to back since 1990. Two nine win seasons. They've never done that |
| 1:56.4 | back to back in Illinois football's history. So looking to bounce back, but Ruckers will give them a fight they did last year. |
| 2:03.7 | Before Illinois and Pat Bryant and Luke Altmeier had their heroics late in that game, |
| 2:08.2 | could we see something similar? |
| 2:10.1 | We'll break it all down on this podcast. |
| 2:12.7 | Bobby Darren, who covers Ruckers for 24-7 Sports, scarlet nation.com. |
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