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It's Become an Illini World

Things have changed in Big Ten football. Illinois is no longer playing its games in anonymity. Iowa, meanwhile, has become Big Ten Network fodder.

While Iowa will host Maine the afternoon of Aug. 30 in a Big Ten Network game certain to be forgotten nine seconds after it ends, Illinois is kicking off its season in prime-time on ESPN. The Fighting Illini, fresh off a Rose Bowl trip, will meet Missouri at 6:45 that night in St. Louis.

Four Saturdays later, Illinois will play at Penn State in a 7 p.m. game that will be carried by either ABC, ESPN or ESPN2. Iowa will host Northwestern that day. That's an 11:05 a.m. game that probably seems a safe bet to also air on the Big Ten Network.

The season starts three months from this week. How many fly balls will Alfonso Soriano of the Cubs have dropped by then?


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