Illinois is 1-4 in the worst division in Power 5

Happy Sunday, Illinois Land!

I feel like I’ve written this column 10 times in the past 12 months.

A winnable game for Illinois football that ends in a loss due to an unforeseen drop, or TWO in this case, incompetent use of timeouts or obviously being outcoached by the other team.

TCR // Jack Jungmann

It’s similar, but never the same. It feels like it’s not going to happen again. Until it does.

Usually, it’s worse this time than last time. That was the case in Iowa City.

Illinois, and HBC Bret Bielema, blow yet another Big Ten West game in the fourth quarter against a team that has no offense to speak of for the year as a whole, or during the most recent two-plus quarters of the game against Illinois.

Michigan or Ohio State come storming back to get you at the end? Not acceptable, but…