Historically, Illinois has played OSU very tough throughout the recent years. For whatever reason, OSU has lost to these guys, when (mostly their LBs) come up big, and their offensive guys catch fire. Don't know why, but even last year, their QB, who had more Int's than TD's, lit up a pretty darn good backfield for 4 Td's. And made a pretty darn good defense look like a Junior High team. C'mon, Zook isn't that good an X and O er, that he could remember what happened 5-7 years ago and scheme out what he did........
Focus is what is needed and execution. Let Gibson 'spy' on Juice, and Freeman and Laurninitis will clean up on any run play. The Buckeyes should be overwhelming to the Illini, especially with them losing Mendenhall and J Leman, both of which were the heart and souls of the O and D.......45-14.
