Ep. 1078 - Reaction: No. 21 Illini blitzed by Badgers 27-10
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Live from Madison, Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner react to No. 21 Illinois football's 27-10 loss at Wisconsin. The guys discuss what went so wrong in all three phases, what it means for the season and what Bret Bielema must do to correct the issues.
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| 0:44.8 | Jeremy Warner, Joey Wagner, live in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:48.4 | Where Illinois, somehow, escaped with a 27 to 10 boss to a bad Wisconsin team. |
| 0:56.5 | Wisconsin wins just its second Big Ten game of the season. |
| 1:01.1 | Illinois in all three phases were stinky, Joey. |
| 1:03.5 | Poopoo, stinky, as you like to say, |
| 1:05.6 | offense wasn't able to run the ball and not able to protect Luke Altmire. |
| 1:09.7 | Defense allows Wisconsin's offense |
| 1:12.4 | to go 80 yards on the first drive, break off an 84-yard touchdown by Dary and Dupree late in the |
| 1:18.1 | game, and then not able to really stop them late in the game to put out some fires there. |
| 1:23.2 | And then the special teams, bad again, they've been bad in losses so far this season, but two punt |
| 1:28.4 | miscues lead to points for Wisconsin. Just a really disappointing loss and one that really |
| 1:35.5 | could reshape the season for Illinois that felt pretty positive coming into this after |
| 1:40.7 | back-to-back wins. This is one of the more disappointing losses of the |
| 1:44.3 | Brett Bielma era, in my opinion. And one, I knew the defense from Wisconsin would be good, Joey, |
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