College Football: Illinois vs Michigan
3:30 p.m. Saturday — Champagne, IL
When a team’s season in the Big Ten goes south and a bowl bid is all but impossible, its attention inevitably shifts in a decidedly different direction.
The effort usually slips because it’s just human nature. But when that team plays a big-name opponent like Michigan, Penn State, or Ohio State, you can usually expect nothing short of their best effort.