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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 538 - Eight is great?

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C

Football, Sports

4.9577 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss Illinois football's 41-3 rout of Northwestern and how they view the season after the best regular season since 2007 but just missing out on a Big Ten West title. The guys discuss standout days from Sydney Brown, Devon Witherspoon and Reggie Love before diving into the biggest storylines of the start of the offseason, including Ryan Walters, NFL Draft decisions and transfer needs (especially quarterback).

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1:06.4

Jeremy Warner, Joey Wagner, live in Evanston and Ryan Field, where Illinois football

1:11.0

wrapped up its regular season, the best regular season for Illinois football since 2007,

1:16.7

with five Big Ten wins, a winning Big Ten season, nine or eight wins overall. Of course, Illinois

1:23.2

with a 41-3 route, Sydney Brown with two defensive touchdowns, Devin Witherspoon, two interceptions.

1:29.3

Reggie love a career day with 85 rushing yards. We'll get into all of that.

1:34.3

But Joey, it's part bittersweet because you end the season with a trophy.

1:38.6

You've crushed Northwestern and Pat Fitzgerald the last two years.

1:41.8

Two programs have really gone separate ways since Brett Bilemo was hired, 88 to 17 advantage for Illinois the last two years. Yet Purdue at home or on the road at Indiana defeats Purdue or Purdue beats Indiana, excuse me, and wins the Big Ten West championship. what Illinois thought coming into this month it would accomplish. So there's a bittersweet end of the season, but you do end it with a little bit of an uptick, beating your rival, crushing your rival, and solidifying yourself to playing in one of the Big Ten's best bowls. Yeah, it's one of those. We've talked about it all season.

2:18.4

If at the beginning of the year, we would have said, hey, this team's going to go eight and four, people would have said we're wrong, and we probably would have felt maybe a little bit of that, and they would have taken it. But as we've talked about, that month of October changed a lot with this season. But I don't think it changed. I mean, there's disappointment.

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