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Summation: Illinois in the Aughts
This concludes our series recapping the last ten seasons in the Big Ten. I. Overview I was trying to think of the best comparison for the amazing decade that the Illinois Fighting Illini just completed. 10 seasons - only two with winning records. But those two good seasons landed the squad in...
College Football's Biggest Under- and Overachievers of the Last Decade
One of my favorite stats is Pythagorean expectation. It looks at a team's points for and points allowed, and then estimates what we should expect that team's winning percentage to be. If you then look at the difference between how a team did versus its expectation, you can get a sense as to whether...
Top 10 SEC-Big Ten Games of the Last Decade: #3 - LSU v Illinois, 2002 Sugar Bowl
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...
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