Illinois finds the cure: A little hustle, and a lot of Michigan's defense

Scroll down or click here to join the Doc's game day live blog, covering every game all day long. Illinois 38, Michigan 13. All the hype surrounding Illinois as a potential darkhorse coming into the season -- emanating from this blog as much as anywhere -- pinned the Illini's potential success on the veteran stars, Juice Williams and Arrelious Benn, but if their depressing catastrophe of a season has even the tiniest spark left after five straight Big Ten losses, it only exists because of an "effort play" by an obscure true freshman. With Illinois down 13-7 on the first possession of the third quarter, Michigan's Roy Roundtree took in a short pass from Tate Forcier, broke a tackle and was off to the races to put the Wolverines up by two touchdowns. Roundtree was so obviously gone, in fact, that it hardly seemed worth it for Illinois' Terry Hawthorne to keep chasing him, until Hawthorne miraculously caught up just inside the five and dragged Roundtree down ...