If 15 years ago, I would have told that we would have to concern ourselves with NIU's returning roster...
20 years ago you would have known we would lose to them cause we were way worse offensively. We could not complete a pass against air that year. I witness bad QB play after bad QB play and the worst inept offense ever been assembled and that lasted for years.
States' defense was respectable those years but our offense? We lost 3-2 to Auburn and it wasn't that close.
4th qtr minutes to go down 1. 1st and 10 on Auburn's side after a turnover, only needing a field goal and the guy next to me said, it won't matter. I said, we only need one first down. 4 plays later, State was punting from their own side of the field inside their own 40.
I was not at the 6-3 win over the Bear in 80 or was it 81, but I was at the 3-2 loss vs Auburn and it stung.