All right, it's Monday.

That means it's time for Jay Lehman on the Alina Inquirer podcast.

I'm Jeremy Warner.

Welcome in.

And Jay, we have another huge victory for Illinois to talk about three top 25 wins. Now, Nebraska, Michigan, and Kansas are no longer in that top 25. But still, this one felt big. The culmination of it all, the 100 year anniversary, Josh Whitman's been fighting to get this game for a long time. And I was able to catch up with him afterwards.

And he was feeling like this was a big moment, sold out crowd.

And the way you won was just as impressive, Jay.

But just go ahead.

Your initial thoughts, big picture about this one.

Illinois went to the World Series of Poker College Football Table and put all their chips in on this weekend for years, despite all the schedule changes with, you know, 16 teams, now 18 teams, divisions dissolving.

They were, they said, we want Michigan on this date, which is the closest date to almost 100 years to the Red Grange

dedication game in 1924 with Michigan.

Remember now, Michigan is the most successful program from 2021 to 2023, and really in all

of college football.

Somebody who could argue Georgia in that regard, but 2023, they ran the table and, you know, beat Alabama in the

playoff and won everything. So you had the defending national champion. And Illinois said,

we want it. It's not like we're asking to play Purdue, thank goodness, or Indiana, right? Thank

goodness too. But now, it's kind of funny, but it's not like we just wanted some run-in-the-mill

Big Ten team.

We won in Michigan for a lot of different reasons, had a ton of alumni back.

I was able to be at the 100-year celebration the gala the night before on Friday with generations,

players from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s, and even present players.

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