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Illinois Football Learns Bowl Game Destination This Sunday

The Illinois Fighting Illini football team will find out where they are headed for it's first bowl game since the 2019 Red Box Bowl on Sunday.

 

The 8-4 Illini struggled down the stretch but eight wins have put Illinois on the map as a legitimate Big Ten football program under second-year coach Bret Bielema. Illini HQ beat writer Bob Asmussen says Illinois should find themselves in a terrific bowl game, perhaps a Jan. 1 or Jan. 2 game.

 

 

The Illini success this season is due in large part to superstar talents like second-team all Big Ten RB Chase Brown and Big Ten defensive back of the year Devon Witherspoon. Asmussen anticipates with those two guys having a lot on the line for draft stock, they will likely sit out the bowl game.

 

 

Coach Bielema and his family have been dealing with a difficult second half of the season as he lost his mother and father-in-law just a week apart late in November. 

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