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I'm fine with what I saw. I'm a little frustrated with the credential policies and the application of "that person has a lanyard so he might not be a fan" rules (as you'll hear, the first guy says I'm fine to record where I'm at, the second woman... does not) but I'm fine with the game. Here I am from the stands at the Horseshoe.

Here's Robert from the stands after the 48-10 win over Southern Illinois.

Well that wasn't fun. I much prefer winning these one score games as opposed to losing these one score games. Here I am in the stands talking about everything I wrote over the last six weeks and everything we saw on the field today.

Illinois beats UAB in, let's be honest, a hilarious game. Hail Marys and pick sixes that were more of a fumble than a pass and penalty after penalty from the undisciplined Blazers. I laughed out loud at least five times during this game. So here I am talking about it.

Hard to believe we're here. 19 wins in two years. Beat South Carolina in the Citrus Bowl and then beat Tennessee in the Music City Bowl. Just... hard to believe we're here.

This FTS is From The Field. The very cold, slippery, snowy, awesome field. 8-4, baby.

I recorded this on my drive to Wisconsin. So if you detect me being chipper here, it’s because the 27-10 loss hadn’t happened yet. But here’s me answering questions from Slack for 90 minutes.

I'm flabbergasted. Confused. That's just not the kind of game we play against a 3-7 football team. This is me trying to process it for 17 minutes.

Come for the football talk, stay for the old man ranting about children climbing on a howitzer.

This is one of the more random From The Standses that I've recorded. It bounces around a lot. But I stuck my phone up to my face and recorded 20 minutes after a terrible loss.

Not much you can say. We handed them the game on a silver platter.

I paced for half of the third quarter and all of the fourth quarter. And, in a game where we were favored by 8.5, we won by 16. This whole "calmly win on the road with big plays" thing will require some adjustments on my part.

It’s rather chaotic because I nearly passed out after the field goal went through but here’s ten minutes from the stands.

There are no words. But here are some words about what has to be one of the worst losses by a top-10 team in the history of college football.

I have no idea why this one is 15 minutes long. I didn't really say much of anything. But here's tonight's From The Stands.