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Welcome to the Opposition Research Podcast here on hawkide nation.com.

My name is Andrew Downs.

Each week I'll find a beat reporter, blogger, or broadcaster that covers Iowa's upcoming opponent.

If you have a suggestion for who I should talk to in a given week, or if you have questions you'd like me to ask, you can find me on Twitter at Andrew C. Downs. Let's get to this week's game. Iowa is at Illinois, a 230 kick on Saturday afternoon. My guest today covers Illinois for the Champaign News Gazette and the EliHQ.com, and is Bob Osmison. Bob, thank you for the time today. In your time. So first looking at the team overall, it seemed like things that turned a bit of a corner last year with a return to the bowl game. I know this season got off to kind of a rough start, but a couple of wins have followed. Does it feel like the program has some positive momentum? I would say yes. I think they really missed the chance to play Ohio State, not because they thought necessarily

they would win, but I think they thought they'd have a chance to play good game against

them.

But the two wins against Rutgers and Nebraska, both on the road, were really important

to this team because they actually start 0 and 5 going into Ohio State would have been

problem. But I think they felt like they made positives the right at this point.

How strange was that this last weekend? You know, here and Iowa, we've been pretty lucky.

We haven't had to deal with a COVID cancellation yet. And I know the one against Ohio State came

pretty late in the game. I think it was Friday night when that game was canceled.

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