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To beat the lllini: who steps up?

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HB King
Sophomores, seniors or both?

Kirk Ferentz always talks about the importance of senior leadership. Senior, academically, DT Daviyon Nixon seems to be the leader.

Of course, Junior, academically, Tyler Linderbaum, who is one of the super sophomores serves as a captain.

This team is much like the 2002, 2004 and 2015 Iowa teams, but it will likely finish more like 2008 or 2009 teams.

Hats off the the leadership this team is showing in the middle of a pandemic and earlier questions of racial disparities and mistreatment.

The coaching staff, especially Kirk Ferentz and Phil Parker, have shown some of their best work in 22 years.

This game is moving closer and closer to what may be one of the tightest Illini games in 42 years, since 1979 when Hayden Fry was head coach?

He won his first game in the series 13-7 in Memorial Stadium. He likely had something to write in the Black book he kept on stadiums and programs.
 
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