Rose Bowl!

Being from Illinois, the University that gained the most from OSU's promotion to the championship game I'd have to thank you Fazor (as if any fan has anything to do with the team's performance). Of course, now I get to listen to a month's worth of hate from the national media about how "unworthy" the Illini are to play USC and how they got crushed in 84, as if any of the current players were even born then. It's as if many of them are trapped in the "Illinois and the Big 10 stink and Zook can't coach" meme and can't live up to the fact that they've already been proven wrong regardless of the Rose Bowl's result. I'm tempted to write one of the more vitrolic (Forde at ESPN) and dare him to take the Dick Vitale challenge and, if Illinois wins, agree to stand on his head at mid-field at halftime of our first home game next year while 70k fans sing the Illinois Alma Mater. Think he'd take it?

In the meantime, I'm pulling for every Big 10 team to win (even Michigan while I hold my nose) and every SEC team to lose. The rest can do as they please.


ILL - INI

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