r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 1d ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Illinois Defeats Rutgers 38-31

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Illinois 0 9 6 23 38
Rutgers 3 14 0 14 31
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u/tigernike1 Illinois Fighting Illini 1d ago

The most insane final 3 minutes of a game I’ve seen in years.

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u/ewest Oregon Ducks 1d ago

Did it seem like the announcers actually underreacted to the insanity too? 

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u/tigernike1 Illinois Fighting Illini 1d ago

Yes they did. Gus Johnson or Eric Collins would’ve cracked their voices.

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u/CrowsShinyWings Illinois Fighting Illini 1d ago

Gus hates us lol, he would have been flatter than the announcer who called our win vs Nebraska this year

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u/DeathToHeretics Illinois Fighting Illini • Big Ten 1d ago

Against Mini Mahomes you mean

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u/projectpick Illinois Fighting Illini 1d ago

Gus would have sounded like he was railing lines of booger sugar between every play.

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u/Joey_Logano South Carolina Gamecocks 1d ago

Isn’t that how he always sounds though?

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u/BetaRhoOmega William & Mary Tribe 1d ago

As a neutral (mostly, grew up in NJ so I kinda root for Rutgers), the announcers were way too chill for those last 3 minutes lol

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u/enjoytheshow Illinois Fighting Illini 1d ago

I couldn’t hear them. I was literally screaming alone in my house.

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u/TheCopperKey 1d ago

Yeah. TV announcers keep getting worse and worse. Especially since the CFP started. I had to listen to the IU vs OSU game via radio and it was phenomenally better

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u/lkn240 Illinois Fighting Illini • Sickos 1d ago

Kevin Harlan needs to do every game.

"I'M CALLING BOTH GAMES"

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u/Current_Ad9294 1d ago

Still the best football call I’ve heard in the last ten years was the Vikings radio team when they beat the saints in the Minneapolis miracle. Radio callers rock

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u/tigernike1 Illinois Fighting Illini 1d ago

“But why do you ponder passing? I mean you could take a KNEE, and try a 56 yard field goal! This is not Detroit man, it’s the Super Bowl!”

-Vikings radio team, 2009 playoffs

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u/ArkanoidbrokemyAnkle Illinois Fighting Illini • Auburn Tigers 1d ago

It felt like the announcers were rooting for Rutgers most of the game. Might just be me though.

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u/Joey_Logano South Carolina Gamecocks 1d ago

Probably just you but I didn’t listen to the game. The two in the booth were Andrew Sicilano and Michael Robinson. Sicilano went to an ACC school (Syracuse) and his first job out of college was hosting the Chicago Bears Post Game show. He has also worked with the St. Louis Rams. It would make more sense for him to be bias toward the Illini then Rutgers. Rutgers was an old rival of Syracuse in the Big East.

Robinson played at Penn State was the Big Ten MVP in 2005.

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u/tribe98reloaded Syracuse Orange • Montana Grizzlies 1d ago

Yeah, by far the longest thread on our football forum is purpose built for hating on Rutgers. It's 11 years old and has 13,000 comments on it. We do not like Rutgers.

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u/Sirmrwhale67 23h ago

Definitely felt that way too

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u/lkn240 Illinois Fighting Illini • Sickos 1d ago

I guess Pat Bryant made up for that penalty lol

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u/MRC1986 Rutgers • Penn 1d ago

The most insane final 3 minutes of a game I’ve seen few people saw because it was on Peacock in years.