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Know Your Opponent: Week 7, Michigan Wolverines

The Champaign Room | July 25, 2019

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When the Illinois Fighting Illini host the Michigan Wolverines on Oct. 12, it will be the Wolverines’ first visit to Champaign in eight seasons. Division re-alignment be damned! Despite Illinois’ fall amongst its Big Ten peers, this game screams tradition and Big Ten lore from the non-existent peaks of the plains in the heartland.

Offense

Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images
With Dwayne Haskins out of the Big Ten and vying for a starting job in the NFL with the Washington Redskins, Michigan’s Shea Patterson figures to be the top QB in the conference.
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