Let’s brush off those cobwebs. Football season is back.
This week starts Week 0 of the 2023 football season, and I don't know about you, but this week is my Christmas. Our beloved Illini does not have a game in Week 0 for the first time in two years. But this gives me time to give you two stat-filled preseason blogs to kick off the season. This is the first of those two.
As TCR’s Pleas Honeywood mentioned last week, Bret Bielema is bringing fun back to Illinois.
Everything that Lovie Smith had imagined, Bielema is executing.