LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Well, there Indiana goes again. Cupcake City. Blowing the doors off some hapless team from Illinois. 63-10? Who was it this time? Southern Illinois? Illinois State? Illinois Wesleyan? You’d think they would get tired.

What’s that? This just in.

That’s the Illinois flagship the Hoosiers just devoured in front of a Memorial Stadium record crowd of 56,088 in Bloomington. This was no cupcake, it was Champaign (Urbana).

This was No. 9-ranked Illinois, the highest-ranked team the program has had this deep into September since Dick Butkus was playing linebacker in 1960. This is Illinois’ best team in my lifetime, and as the internet reminds me daily, I am not a young guy.

"We've done what we wanted to get done," Indiana coach Curt Cignetti told NBC immediately after t

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