Dr. Saturday said something yesterday that I wholeheartedly agree with:

Northern Illinois (+7) over Illinois. It's just about that time for a devastating MAC loss to roll the guillotine into place for the Ron Zook era.

I'm just going to go ahead and say that the Illini are going to look past this game towards their season opener against Ohio State.

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I mean it only seems suitable that there's going to be multiple times that the Zooker breaks down and does something utterly stupid in-game.

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It's not like any non-BCS schools have ever beaten Illinois before.  We would be pioneers.

And that pretty much sums it up.  We can beat the Illini, it's just an odds thing.  The time is now for the Zooker to lose his mind.  NIU will reap the benefits.  There really isn't any reason to dig any deeper.