Ep. 875 - Illinois vs. Michigan preview with Alejandro Zúñiga & Joey Wagner
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Werner previews Saturday's matchup between No. 24 Michigan and No. 22 Illinois with The Michigan Insider's Alejandro Zuñiga and Illini Inquirer's Joey Wagner. Zuñiga breaks down Sherrone Moore's first season as head coach, how much Michigan has changed under his leadership, their quarterback problems, their rushing offense and why such a talented defense has struggled more than expected. Then Wagner joins Werner to answer a six-pack of questions about Illinois entering the Michigan game, including concerns about the defense, what this game means for the Illini program, the matchup with Michigan and more.
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| 0:46.2 | Today on the Illinois Enquirer podcast, we get you ready for a huge matchup in Champaign as the number 22 fighting on. |
| 0:48.5 | I take on number 24, Michigan, as Illinois celebrates 100 year anniversary of the dedication game of the galloping ghosts, |
| 0:57.0 | Red Grange, going off for five touchdowns against Michigan in a historic 39-14 win. |
| 1:03.0 | It changed Illinois football, it changed college football, and it created the legend that is Red Grange. |
| 1:09.0 | Illinois has been kind of putting together this game for a really |
| 1:11.8 | long time. Josh Whitman working two or three years to get Michigan on the schedule for the |
| 1:16.8 | 100 year anniversary and to kind of host this great historic event. But Illinois and Brett Bielm have |
| 1:23.3 | also made this a big game. Is there off to a five in one start? Are they the number 22 team in |
| 1:28.5 | the country? They get a chance to prove it now. Some of the metrics might say otherwise, you know, |
| 1:33.2 | getting by Purdue by just one point in overtime, avoiding one of the worst losses, probably the |
| 1:38.3 | worst loss of the Brett Bielma era. You know, going to Penn State and the eye test didn't look |
| 1:42.9 | great for Illinois against what is now a top five |
| 1:45.8 | team, but they were in the game at the very end. Obviously, the Kansas win is not as good as it |
| 1:51.5 | once looked as Kansas has really struggled this year, but still a great win at Nebraska, and Illinois's |
| 1:56.2 | 5 and 1. They shouldn't apologize for that. It's not often that Illinois gets to 5 and one. So a chance to make more national noise with Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson, and the CBS broadcast here on the call. |
| 2:09.6 | Huge moment for Illinois. And let's break down this game. Joy Wagner's going to join me later, as he always does, to have a six pack of questions for Illinois football leading into this game. |
| 2:18.4 | But coming up next, let's get to know more about Michigan, which is four and two, two and one |
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