Michigan Football will beat Illinois and here’s why
By Josh LaFond
Illinois has yet to find its passing game
It’s getting really late in the year for the Illinois Fighting Illini to be still searching for their passing game.
Despite on the surface appearing to be a solid aerial attack — averaging over 200 yards per game, and their quarterback ranking top 75 in points responsible per game — the stats are quite deceiving.
In reality, the only stat you need to know about the Illinois passing game is this: 10.36.
That’s the total yards per completed pass and it ranks 103rd nationally out of 114 qualified quarterbacks.
What can we take away from that? That most of Illinois plan through the air is short screens or deep shots. Not necessarily wide-open deep shots, but 50/50 balls.
When they aren’t leaning on stud running back Chase Brown, the Fighting Illini’ are going to try to dink and dunk their way to an upset win on the road. The problem with that is that Michigan’s defense is built to stop just that.
The Wolverines aren’t a team you work out kinks against. They’re a team that if you want to beat requires you to be a complete team and play mistake-free football.
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Illinois is not a complete team and they have yet to prove that have a passing game nor can they play mistake-free football. And for that reason, we think Michigan rolls.