CHAMPAIGN — You don’t apologize for winning. Not even when the final score is 9-6, nary a touchdown was scored and all who witnessed four quarters of hideous offensive football were left emotionally scarred, if not literally blinded.
You don’t apologize ever, and sure as hell not if you’re Illinois.
The Illini are 5-1, people. They’re 2-1 in the Big Ten after back-to-back wins at Wisconsin and here against Iowa, which had beaten the Illini eight straight times head-to-head. Apologize? Please. Something good is happening here in Year 2 under Bret Bielema.
The tailgate parties were up and running four hours, five hours, six hours before kickoff.