I read a 247 Sports bowl projection earlier this morning. Guess who they have going to the Citrus? The Fighting Illini. You know who they project their opponent will be? Alabama. They’re projecting us to the Rate Bowl against Kansas. Meaningful difference to RU in terms of program...
To make it worse, the announcers reported that a representative of the Citrus Bowl was at the game. This makes me believe this was essentially a play-in game.
Zappaa, to clear up your statement about TN and AL not having black players, that was true prior to either of these two games. When we played TN in 1979, they had many black players on the field that day.