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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 851 - Illini put away EIU early in late-night 45-0 season-opening rout

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner break down the Illini's 45-0 season-opening win over Eastern Illinois including some unexpected snap counts for certain players and discuss next week's matchup with Kansas.


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0:55.2

Good Friday morning. Welcome into the online inquire podcast. We can say that because it is 1240 as we start this in Memorial Stadium, the press box, where Illinois takes care of business, 45 to nothing beating Eastern Illinois in their week one game on a late Thursday night kickoff. Joey, they let the fans go home a little early. But a balanced Illinois offense, 242 passing yards led by Altmeyer, Luke Altmeier, and his four touchdown pass is

1:01.5

two of those to Pat Bryant. Joey feeling good about his few of his bold predictions. We'll get

1:07.2

to that here in a little bit. But Caden Fagan, his first 100-yard game, 108 yards,

1:11.6

along with Aden Loffrey, it had 79 yards. Fagan running for a touchdown as well. But then

1:17.2

defensively, we get a shutout against Eastern Illinois. I think we're hoping the defense would play

1:21.9

pretty well today, but they did a shutout and four takeaways. Joy, I just think that's how

1:27.3

you want to treat an FCS opponent

1:29.0

when you're a Big Ten team. But what are you most encouraged by coming out of this game?

1:34.3

Because obviously a huge game coming up with Kansas, but let's focus on this one. What were you

1:38.6

most encouraged by? The passing game. We talked all offseason about how it was due to take another step with Luke Altmyer

1:46.5

and the whole deal with him this offseason is a guy who's been more comfortable, right?

1:50.7

A guy who's just confident in his approach, comfortable in his approach, but he needed to see it.

1:56.7

And I know it was an FCS opponent.

1:58.2

I know it was Eastern Illinois.

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