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ESPN's 2025 Preseason College Football Power Index Sells Illinois Short

For all the college football pundits who agree that Illinois is in position to deliver one of its best-ever seasons and, at the very least, shapes up as a preseason top-25 program, there is one "expert" with a wildly dissenting take.

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