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Predicting Illinois Football’s 2018 Win Total

Related Topics: Stephen Cohn, Ball, Lovie Smith

Three is more than two, right? Then this is improvement. Look, three isn’t great, and it obviously isn't much when the first two games are against Kent State and Western Illinois, but this still isn’t the year. I don’t know which game is the third win, but I’ll put my money on Penn State, just because that'd be fun.

I bet it sucked for Cubs fans to say that, too, in the earlier parts of this decade. It gets better, just not yet, so let’s deal with three for now and move on.

Thumpasaurus: 3 Wins

If 2015-17 was a three-year offseason, 2018 is like the preseason for 2019.