41 — 20
FINAL · SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2007
STAR OF THE GAME
85.0
GAME SCORE · ILLINOIS
64.3
GAME SCORE · SYRACUSE

Game Score: one number for how good a player's game was, from that game's box score alone (50 = an ordinary game). Not opponent-adjusted.

TEAM STATS
ILLINOISSYRACUSE
508TOTAL YARDS315
130PASSING YARDS252
378RUSHING YARDS63
8.8YARDS / PLAY5.0
0TURNOVERS0
SITUATIONAL LINE
TeamSuccess %3rd Down %4th Down %Explosive %Red Zone TD %
ILLINOIS57.1%55.6%--26.8%--
SYRACUSE25.0%30.0%50.0%4.5%--
GARBAGE TIME REALITY CHECK
Final Score“Real” Score (before garbage time)
ILLINOIS4133
SYRACUSE2010

This game hit garbage time at Q3 1:37 — 24+ point lead, 20:00 or less remaining. The “real” score is frozen at the last genuinely competitive moment; it never changes any ranking or projection elsewhere on the site (see the Garbage Time Reality Check page for the full leaderboard).

TeamSuccess % (garbage-time-weighted)3rd Down % (garbage-time-weighted)Garbage Snaps / Total
ILLINOIS57.3%48.1%9 / 56
SYRACUSE22.2%27.0%14 / 44

Weighted splits count each garbage-time snap as 35% of a competitive one toward these rates, rather than excluding or fully counting it — see SITUATIONAL LINE above for this game's unweighted numbers.

ILLINOIS
PASSINGC-ATTCOMP%YDSYPATDINTQBR
EDDIE MCGEE-------33--00--
TOTALS0-0--33--00--
RUSHINGATTYDSYPCTD
ARRELIOUS BENN4287.00
BRIAN GAMBLE177.00
DANIEL DUFRENE263.00
EDDIE MCGEE284.00
RASHARD MENDENHALL161509.43
TROY POLLARD13927.10
TOTALS382917.73
RECEIVINGRECYDSYPCTD
ARRELIOUS BENN4266.50
BRIAN GAMBLE3206.70
JACOB WILLIS11010.00
JEFF CUMBERLAND12222.01
MICHAEL HOOMANAWANUI12727.00
RASHARD MENDENHALL3206.70
RUSS WEIL133.00
WILL JUDSON122.00
TOTALS151308.71
SYRACUSE
PASSINGC-ATTCOMP%YDSYPATDINTQBR
ANDREW ROBINSON-------208--00--
CAMERON DANTLEY-------15--10--
TOTALS0-0--223--10--
RUSHINGATTYDSYPCTD
ANDREW ROBINSON8-20-2.50
CURTIS BRINKLEY18543.00
DOUG HOGUE3134.30
JEREMY SELLERS4153.81
PAUL CHIARA111.00
TOTALS34631.91
RECEIVINGRECYDSYPCTD
CURTIS BRINKLEY48922.20
DA'MON MERKERSON22211.00
DAN SHEERAN155.00
JAWAD NESHEIWAT2147.01
JEREMY SELLERS12727.00
MIKE WILLIAMS23316.50
PAUL CHIARA166.00
RICE MOSS155.00
TAJ SMITH144.00
TONY FIAMMETTA4184.50
TOTALS1922311.71

Team totals reflect the official box score on file; player lines are the recorded individual statistics for this game.