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In the fourth quarter they gave our offense a short field with a strip sack and then they forced a punt on Illinois’ last drive when they had a chance to end the game.
They didn’t play great, but they absolutely did enough to win. Bottom line is if we’re just a fraction better in any of the three phases last night then we win in regulation. It was a team loss by a razor thin margin.
The thing that makes this one hard to take is that there is no other top 4-6 big ten team that isn’t able to make a 39 yard field goal.
Getting beat because we can’t do simple things like this that everyone else can is very tough for me to accept.