We are just hours away from the Illinois football team kicking off against an opponent we aren’t too familiar with.
Despite USC being in the same conference, it has been a long time since the Illini have played the Trojans. You have to go back to the drubbing at the 2008 Rose Bowl to find the last time the two were on the same field.
Illinois fans don’t like to remember the end of that 2007 season. It was more of the middle chunks, when we upset No. 1 Ohio State, that gave us the good memories.