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VIDEO: Illinois scores 56-yard touchdown on trick play
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When you’re down 21-0 to a MAC school, you have to shake things up.
Credit Illinois for doing just that.
Facing the three-score deficit at the end of the first quarter, the Illini pulled off this misdirection play for a long 56-yard score to Ainslie Johnson:
Illinois will need a few more of those to avoid becoming the second team to fall to Western Michigan at home.
Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.