NORMAL — For months, the season opener beckons a football team, motivating it to be properly prepared once the day finally arrives.
Now that the current date has advanced to the same calendar line as the first game, excitement and anticipation has enveloped Illinois State.
“No doubt,” Redbird quarterback Brady Davis said Tuesday. “ You can tell in the air with everybody in the locker room and on the practice field. Everybody is ready to go.”
ISU opens its season with a Bowl Subdivison opponent from the Mid-American Conference in Northern Illinois on Saturday in a 6 p.