Illinois

Well don't really want to talk to much about this game. It sucked. That pretty much wraps it up. We lossed if you couldn't tell or didn't already know that. It was a key game for both teams but Illinois won, propelling them ahead and holding Iowa back. This was a much needed game since it is probably one of the easiest games they have left. Now they have to play undefeated Penn State next week. They also have to play Purdue, Minnesota. Minnesota is also a very good team and will be a very hard win, but they should win easily against purue. Now if they do what's expected, which is to lose to Penn State and Minnesota but win against Purdue, they will be 6-6. That's as good as last year which wasn't good. If they had just won the illinois game they would have at least been 7-5 and possibly better. But the hardest part about this loss (minus the fact that i hate illinois) is that it was by 3 points. 3 POINTS. They had missed a field goal ealier in the game and failed to score a touchdown twice in the redzone and had to settle for fieldgoals. It was an easy win, a sure win. Yet somehow they managed to let it slip through their fingers and they lost it. Sure their errors for a "young" team and its just helping them learn. But we won't have a lot of our good players for long and fans are wanting results now. Iowa's last 9 losses have been by 3 points or less. That means we gain a few more points every game and we're contending for the national championship. That's the hard part of accepting this loss.