Computer polls don't use margin of victory, and pollsters are unlikely to be impressed by any ridiculous margin of victory over Zook's hapless bunch.
Bad theory, sorry.
Tressel doesn't need to "try" to run up the score. Short of ordering players to take a knee, he's going to be hard pressed to not blast the Illini into dust.
In fact, the Bucks could come out hung over from the Minny game, and looking ahead to NU and scUM, and still hang 21 on Illinois in the first quarter.
Now give us that damned turtle back already.