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College Football Scoreboard: Iowa Hawkeyes Surprise Sluggish #18 Illinois Fighting Illini in Big Ten Fight

Atlanta, Ga. 10/14/2007 2:45:36 AM

Brandon Myers hit Jake Christensen on a 20-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter and the Iowa Hawkeyes defense kept the #18 Illinois Fighting Illini offense out of the endzone in their surprising 10-6 win on Saturday.

 

Illinois, averaging 421 yards of offense per game was limited to just 287 yards against the Hawkeyes. Even more perplexing was Illinois inability to get the nation’s #5 rushing game involved in the contest. Rashard Mendenhall was held to 67 yards on 15 carries, that coming off a 160 yard performance against Wisconsin last week.

 

The Fighting Illini could chalk up just 137 yards on the ground, more than 100 yards off their season average of 261game.

 

Jason Reda provided the only points for Illinois and gave them a 6-3 advantage in the third quarter when he booted a 23-yard field goal but the Hawkeyes would answer when Myers and Christensen connected with 6 seconds left in the frame.

 

Despite their poor performance throughout the game the Illini had an opportunity to grab the lead late in the fourth quarter as they moved down to the Iowa 11-yard line but Eddie McGee, in as quarterback for an ineffective Juice Williams, was picked off in the endzone to seal the game for Iowa.

 

The loss was Illinois’ seventh in a row to Iowa and dropped them to 5-2 on the year and 3-1 in the Big Ten while Iowa improved to 3-4 and 1-3 in the Big Ten.

 

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