Pregaming Illinois
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I wish they were playing tomorrow because I’d have driven over. Interesting matchup personally as I grew up in Illinois and have always been ready to jump on the Illini bandwagon should they ever put it all together. They did once making the Rose Bowl and then got torched by UCLA. Not many exciting moments, so of course KU has one upped them with the magical season in 2008. Don’t worry, not secretly hoping for an Illini win. It just wouldn’t suck as bad as losing to someone else.
Of course the other coach in this one was a Badger coach and fairly successful too. He coached Russell Wilson there and was two hail mary losses in back to back weeks from being undefeated in that season.
Exciting matchup for sure.
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Daniels first pass a bullet for 1st down.
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Wave the wheat! Welcome back Jaylon, stay healthy please!
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Nice start to this big game
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Look SO MUCH better with Daniels out there. Good grief that guy is smooth.
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Nice to see Jalen come out and not force anything a good steady drive for 6. Neal’s fumble the only hiccup.
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@wissox I grew up an Illinois fan (Tony Eason, Jeff George era), but I’ve lived in kansas longer than IL at this point.
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@DanR I was trying to think of his name, I think it might have been Tony Eason that led them to that Rose Bowl.
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Eason played for the Patriots when the Bears creamed them in superbowl XX
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Very nice start for the defense
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Cubs get shut out, Sox getting no hit through 6, Illini losing, shaping up to be an epic day in Chicago sports.
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Hishaw is back to breaking tackles…
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@DanR said in Pregaming Illinois:
Hishaw is back to breaking tackles…
Would you want to try to tackle him? For that matter would you like to try to tackle Bret Bielema?
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That was an impressive drive, aided by the dumb personal foul.
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Wow, Casey again. Wow, great start.
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Couldn’t have hoped for a better 1st quarter. Keep wearing them down
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So far, so great!
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Very impressive first quarter so far, especially the defense and how much they’ve been in the backfield tonight. This is a good Illinois team, maybe not as good as the Duke team KU played last year, but Illinois should make a bowl this year.
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Just saw in Instagram Bill Self saying “This is the best Kansas team we have ever seen”. But back to the game.
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Come on D can’t start giving up chunks in the ground game
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They pulled a KC chief and got too cute lol sorry if that’s too soon
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Uh so I’m liking this athletic Defensive Line.
Last season I was just hoping to hold the other team to 3 on defense every possession, so this has been nice
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More Jaylon Magic
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Great catch by Wilson
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Daniels looks gassed.
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Also, these uniforms look even better than in the social media posts.
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I honestly thought this would be a bit closer than this.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Pregaming Illinois:
Great catch by Wilson
That guy is going to be something… either a spark plug or a disaster, but I love the way he plays
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@Texas-Hawk-10 The uni’s are the only thing I don’t like about tonight!
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Now they have to abandon their game plan and throw the ball
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4.0! He’s very impressive. Anybody remember him standing in front of Bean after the OSU game when Bean was overcome with emotion?
special moment between good friends. Going bowling!
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good play by Illinois
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This is the Kansas defense we’ve grown to know and love.
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Still have time to go back up by 21
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Grimm reaper
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Unbelievable. What a throw and catch.
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Hishaw would run through a brick wall from the 1
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This team has given us a decades worth of highlights in the last year.
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Hishaw looks like he did before the injury last year.
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That one one of the best half’s we have played in decades against a power 5 opponent
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@wissox said in Pregaming Illinois:
@Texas-Hawk-10 The uni’s are the only thing I don’t like about tonight!
A very friendly you’re wrong about the uniforms.
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That was a great half for KU and we get the ball to start the second half with the chance to go up 28.
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@FarmerJayhawk are you there? @BShark you?
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Guys I think e got us a football team. long way to go but very nice half
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Four long ass drives for touchdowns is really impressive.
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Halftime KU football games seeing Alabama predictions reminds me of seeing Duke coverage during basketball game halftimes on ESPN. Blech.
Oh well. I predict Texas gets killed by Bama
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This openning series is going to tell us a lot about how the second half will go. I’m hoping for another KU 75 yd drive that takes 7 minutes off the Q
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I will be in front of the
yelling from the beginning to the end. My son may have only played 1 year but in that 1 year I fell in love with everything about the Jayhawks from the program to the fans to the players. Always #RockChalk #Jayhawks 
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🤍Lonnie Phelps sr
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The good guys have looked impressive this 1st half. The hurry up offense of Illinois may present problems since that led to their only score so far. Keep it up KU!
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I feel Neal has a good burst but his top end speed ain’t great lol
