Going forward, 10 wins in the Big Ten is as close to a lock as you can be for the playoffs. We get 4 teams in and it is going to be extremely rare to have more than 4 with 10 wins.And 10 wins in the Big Ten will get you into the playoff some years.
If more than 1 team from that list (heck even if 1 from that list) makes the playoffs I will be shocked.LOL...There's no way we make the playoffs.
And we had the lead on the eventual National Champions with 6 minutes left in the 4th... Not saying Illinois is great but the gap between teams is so much smaller than it has ever been.I’m still not sold on Illinois. A solid team perhaps, but not a playoff team. It took a lot of incompetence from our team last year to lose to them.
#39 in the Coaches Poll.
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