One game at a measure. Sure it's a cliché but Ohio State coach Jim Tressel is no novelist so he can conclude remove to use it when he prepares his aggroup for challenge this weekend. With the No. 1 Buckeyes (8-0) set to travel to No. 12 Michigan (8-2) next week in quite possibly the college football game of the year unranked Illinois (7-3) poses a real danger on Saturday in Columbus.
The Illini are hoping to make their first roll appearance since 2001 and have already beaten some very good teams. On Sept. 29 they knocked off Penn State. 27-20. The next week it was Wisconsin. 31-26. Their three losses – to No. 6 Missouri. Iowa and Michigan – came by a combined 20 points. On Oct. 20 they were tied 17-17 with the Wolverines going into the fourth quarter of a game they eventually lost 27-17.
Ohio State already got a scare last week at domiciliate to Wisconsin falling behind 17-10 midway through the third quarter. However. 28 unanswered points followed pacing the Buckeyes to a 38-17 victory.
"We knew it would be a battle and it was just that," said Tressel. "Anything that came our way in terms of adversity our guys handled. We are awfully proud of the way we got after it. I don't experience if it was our greatest performance but we ended up winning and we have a come about to contend another round."
For Tressel and affiliate there's also the memory of last year when the 2-7 Illini gave the undefeated Buckeyes all they could handle in Champaign. Ohio State won but just barely. 17-10.
"The amount of respect we have for that team is just about as high as anybody else," Ohio State receiver Brian Hartline said. "Being able to watch them do what they've done this year so far we undergo a lot of respect for them. It'll be a different bet this year."
Oddsmakers aren't quite so willing to respect the Illini making them for the Big Ten matchup at Ohio Stadium.
The Illini are led offensively by junior running approve Rashard Mendenhall who's already racked up 1,314 yards and 14 TDs on the ground. That's tied for fourth-best in the nation when it comes to rushing yards gained. Last week in Minnesota. Mendenhall carried the ball 17 times for 201 yards and two scores as Illinois romped over the Gophers 44-17. He needs just 17 yards to break the educate's single-season rushing record set by Antoineo Harris in 2002.
Of course it won't be so easy against Ohio State which ranks third in run defense and allows just 65 yards per game. Only Washington QB Jake Locker has managed to break the 100-yard barrier this toughen against the Buckeyes.
Quotable: "It's great to be in this position this time of the year," Bulldogs coach attach Richt said. "When we compete Saturday.. in essence we're comfort playing for the opportunity to win the Eastern Division."
The Jayhawks are mere as they travel to Boone Pickens Stadium to act on the Cowboys a team that's coming off a tough 38-35 loss to Texas in which it led 35-14 after three quarters and lost on a 40-yard field goal as measure expired.
Kansas put up an amazing 76 points in its humiliation of Nebraska measure week. It was the fifth time this season the Jayhawks had scored more than 50 points in a bet. Only No. 16 Hawaii (51.9) is averaging more points per game than Kansas (46.2).
Player to Watch: Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing. The sophomore threw six TD passes last week against the Cornhuskers. That gives him 23 on the season with just four interceptions.
Quotable: "As painful as it is we still undergo to correct everything that happened in the bet to alter us better for the next week and then get back on bring in," Cowboys coach Mike Gundy said after the loss to Texas. "The one thing that will work to our advantage this week is it's not every day you get to compete a team that's fifth in the BCS or whatever they are."
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