Ep. 1082 - Illinois vs. Northwestern preview
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner preview Saturday's regular-season finale between Illinois and Northwestern with a six-pack of questions. The guys discuss the senior class's legacy, the Illini's All-Big Ten candidates, the recruiting Class of 2026, keys vs. the Wildcats and their picks to click and bold predictions for the game.
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| 0:27.6 | You Welcome in to the online inquire podcast. |
| 0:44.8 | It is Jeremy Warner, Joey Wagner, our final six-pack preview for an Illinois football regular season game of 2025. |
| 0:54.0 | Illinois enters the Land of Lincoln Trophy game seven and four, four and four in the big ten. |
| 0:59.8 | It's probably a surprise from where we thought they would be in a negative way, Joey. |
| 1:04.0 | They obviously came in with college football playoff, hopes, more importantly, |
| 1:07.9 | hopes of having eight, nine wins going into this last game. |
| 1:10.7 | But the bigger surprise might be Northwestern. |
| 1:12.4 | It means six and five already clinched a bowl game four and four. |
| 1:16.2 | Second full permanent season with David Braun. |
| 1:19.7 | I had some questions about where they go, year three with David Braun, |
| 1:23.4 | heading into that great new stadium in Evanston next year, |
| 1:27.0 | but a surprise season for Northwestern, |
| 1:29.3 | and they're a feisty crew coming into Champaign. Yeah, even earlier on this season, you looked at |
| 1:34.1 | Northwestern, and it's like, this is, where's this one going to go, right? You didn't really know |
| 1:38.5 | how good Northwestern was going to be. I mean, they lose to Tulane to open up. Obviously, they crush |
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