I agree with the bold. I don't know how many of the guys on their team on Saturday were on the 2019 team, but Illinois beat Wisconsin in 2019.
Scott clearly wanted to run them over with power running in the first quarter and we just didn't block well. It didn't work. Martinez's completion percentage was bad at 50%...but he did manage to throw for 232, and like I've said many times now it would have been over 250 and we were really rolling except for the play where Martin picks the guy and then that drive was over from yet another inopportune penalty.
To your last sentence there, yeah, Martin got open - and he had 103 yards on the day. Pretty damn good, right? Toure had three catches for 37 yards and it would have been more if not for the pick play.
This last part is not directed at you but I notice that hardly anybody is talking about our rushing stats from our backs. The stats are bad, with our leading rusher (Ervin) averaging 2.8 YPC.
Yes, thank you for pointing this out.