Takeaways as Illinois shocks No. 6 Wisconsin: Illini pick up first ranked win since 2007
No. 6 Wisconsin has now trailed for 1 second in the 2019 school football season. Sadly for the Badgers, it was the last second of their 24-23 misfortune to Illinois on Saturday. Wisconsin appeared to be in charge for the vast majority of the game yet were always unable to pull away. At that point, two turnovers in the final quarter bound them against an Illini group prepared to gain by the mix-ups.
In the first place, it was Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor bobbling in Illinois region while the Badgers were up 23-14 with 8 minutes to go. At that point, after an Illinois touchdown to slice the lead to 23-21, quarterback Jack Coan tossed his second block attempt of the period. It gave the Illini the ball at midfield and Illinois headed to set up a 39-yard field objective endeavor as time terminated. James McCourt's field objective kick split the uprights to give Illinois its first prevail upon a positioned group since it upset No. 1 Ohio State in 2007.
The 2007 season was additionally the last time Illinois had beaten Wisconsin. The Badgers had won nine straight against the Illini. Presently they've seen that streak reached an end, and potentially the Big Ten title trusts too. We should investigate a few takeaways from this amazing miracle.
1. Wisconsin won't be in the College Football Playoff. I said this misfortune could end Wisconsin's expectations of winning a Big Ten title, yet it unquestionably destroyed the Badgers any desires for acquiring a College Football Playoff billet. In a season like this that has given us various commendable possibility to arrive at the CFP, a misfortune like this on the resume will be an executioner. Simply ask Ohio State what befalls one-misfortune Big Ten victors with a humiliating misfortune on their resume.
I would prefer not to remove anything from the Illini here in light of the fact that they played all around ok to win this game, and in the final quarter they were the better group. Be that as it may, this is as yet a humiliating misfortune. The Badgers were 30-point top picks coming into this challenge. They were confronting an Illinois group that had won just seven Big Ten games since the 2015 season. They were confronting an Illinois group that lost at home to Eastern Michigan prior this season.
Wisconsin still couldn't seem to trail anytime this season. At the point when Illinois scored a touchdown in the primary half to cut Wisconsin's lead at the opportunity to 10-7, it was the first run through a Wisconsin adversary had scored a first-half touchdown against everything season long. It wouldn't have been stunning to see Wisconsin win this game, however look messy doing as such. It was an early opening shot out and about against Illinois on homecoming end of the week.
The Badgers have a gigantic street game against No. 4 Ohio State one week from now. Had they held tight to win this game 23-14 or 23-21, individuals would have discounted it as they were discovered looking forward to Ohio State and proceeded onward. In any case, that is not what occurred. Wisconsin turned into the principal positioned group to tumble to the Illini since 2007, and it currently needs to go headed for Columbus. A season that appeared as though it could be otherworldly all of a sudden looks nearly falling apart.
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