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Unlock Illini Football like never before. Deep dives into analysis, stats, and game film. Plus live game video and a little bit of fun as well. My real name is Storm. 🏡 St Louis 🔗 illinifb.substack.com

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Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · Feb 24

Here’s my current #Illini Starter Pack of Bluesky accounts covering Illinois sports.

If someone joins Bluesky in the future or if I’ve missed an account that should be included, let me know in the comments or DMs so I can add them.

Let’s keep growing the Illini community on Bluesky!

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Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 55m

Former Illini & current Denver Broncos rookie WR Pat Bryant today:

— 35 snaps
— 2 targets
— 2 catches
— 22 yards
— 12 YAC

Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 1h

Franklin vs Fickell “first to get fired” contest is officially over.

Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 2h

SP+ FBS rankings for all Big Ten teams.

Illinois’ rankings among Big Ten teams (& FBS teams):

— Overall: 10th (29th)
— Offense: 6th (18th)
— Defense: 14th (50th)
— Special Teams: 3rd (19th)

Source: www.espn.com/college-foot...

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Nathan Jahnke @pffnatejahnke.bsky.social · 4h

Broncos halftime WR snap count

Courtland Sutton 30
Troy Franklin 22
Pat Bryant 18
Marvin Mims Jr. 13
Trent Sherfield Sr. 7

Out of 34 plays

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Game on Paper @gameonpaper.com · 17h

Final, a shutout in Madison

Iowa 37 | 0.78 total EPA
Wisconsin 0 | -33.36 total EPA

gameonpaper.com/cfb/game/401...

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 17h

Badgers shutout at home for the first time since 1980...

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Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t know what Franklin’s buyout is but to consistently lose the big games over your career and then the season when you have the most Championship level aspirations lose back to back games vs UCLA and Northwestern with these expectations.

Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 17h

Luke Fickell and James Franklin just battling it out for who gets fired first.

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Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 20h

Q: “Does this win silence the haters?”

Cignetti: “I don’t really care about that. I mean you are going to have people supporting cookies over brownies all the time right. It’s part of the business.”

Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 20h

Indiana beats Oregon 30-20

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Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 20h

There’s no coming back from this.

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Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 21h

Drew Allar fails to pick up the 1st down and is now injured and being helped off the field.

Penn State down 1 with 3 minutes left on fourth down with the backup QB in and he gets absolutely rocked trying to run it.

Turnover on downs

Northwestern ball, up 1, at the Penn St 32 with 3:00 left

Wow

Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 22h

Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 23h

Ohio State’s opponents offensive success rate vs the Buckeyes this season. The dashed line illustrates a 50th %tile success rate in college football

Overall not a bad showing by Illinois vs the tOSU defense.

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Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 23h

Did Illinois really get beat the bad?

Illinois Net Success Rate By Game

Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 1d

The worst part of today for Illinois is the leg Injury to Ca’Lil Valentine and the shoulder injury for Kaden Feagin and how much impact those have.

Illinois does have their bye week to heal up.

Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 1d

Nice play call here. A couple fakes and it appears to be a run play but then Collin Dixon releases and it's an easy touchdown.

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Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 1d

Ohio State's average starting field position today is the Illinois 49-yard line

gameonpaper.com/cfb/game/401...

Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 1d

Ryan Day has coached just one game at Ohio State while the Buckeyes were ranked outside the top 10

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Game on Paper @gameonpaper.com · 1d

End of 3Q

Ohio State 27
Illinois 10

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Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 1d

Success Rate

Week 4
Illinois 33%
Indiana 51% (+18)

Week 7
Ohio State 47%
Illinois 48% (+1)

Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 1d