Coming into Sunday, the Illinois football team was sitting pretty in the AP Top 25.
The Illini donned a single-digit number at No. 9 in the country for the first time since the 2001 campaign. That Kurt Kittner-led Illinois squad got as high as No. 7 that season.
With a blowout win over Western Michigan 38-0, I don’t usually expect a ton of upward movement, as there isn’t a ton of room to move up, and the win wasn’t that impressive. But Notre Dame was ahead of us and lost their second straight game, dropping them to No.