Top 10 SEC-Big Ten Games of the Last Decade: #3 - LSU v Illinois, 2002 Sugar Bowl

by cocknfire on Jun 15, 2009 10:30 AM EDT

They probably just set another record. Neither team was supposed to be there. When the 2001 college football season began, LSU was generating a little buzz, but only enough to get the Bayou Bengals ranked No. 14 in the AP poll and No. 17 by the coaches in the ESPN/USA Today poll. As for Illinois...