Illinois Football: The offensive line has a mix of experience and size by Rees Woodcock This season marks the 10th anniversary of the last Illinois football Rose Bowl team. However, let’s not think too hard about the final result, but rather the journey! Specifically, this November will be ten years since one of the greatest upsets in Big Ten football history, when Juice Williams led the unranked Illini into Columbus to take on the No. 1 Ohio State Buckeyes. While I highly encourage you to watch the whole clip and relive the memory, the everlasting moment comes at the 1:24 mark, when the Zooker elected to go for it on 4th-and-inches in our own territory with less than 7 minutes to go and up one touchdown. Everyone remembers that. What I forgot about, until writing this blog, was how dope the rest of that possession was. Following the…
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