{"id":68970,"date":"2025-07-17T04:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68970\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T04:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T04:29:08","slug":"espn-analyst-expects-illinois-to-make-2026-college-football-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68970\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN analyst expects Illinois to make 2026 College Football Playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"lkmCkU\">Give it to me. <\/p>\n<p id=\"hzler3\">I need it. <\/p>\n<p id=\"jasLkt\">An ESPN analyst said \u2014 with a straight face on live television \u2014 that Illinois will definitely make the College Football Playoff this season. <\/p>\n<p id=\"nrAFTY\">I know we\u2019ve been talking about it being a real possibility for the entire offseason, but it hasn\u2019t really set in that it can be something that happens. And Dan Orlovsky might be the first I\u2019ve heard say it out loud. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dan Orlovsky predicts the Big Ten will have the most College Football Playoff teams for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s five teams from the Big Ten that I feel very confidently in making it: Penn State, Ohio State, Oregon, Illinois and the fifth team is probably going to be Indiana or\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WHJwyV4M10\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/WHJwyV4M10<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1944793476266078459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 14, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"GxndYK\">With a big SEC logo in the background and Paul Finebaum grinning ear to ear, Orlovsky actually said Illinois should be a lock to make the CFP, while Michigan and may be sweating it out. <\/p>\n<p id=\"CrzDb2\">What an amazing world this is. Six weeks to kickoff. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Give it to me. I need it. An ESPN analyst said \u2014 with a straight face on live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[4833,26980,2871,5723,40086,1318,204,1818,38123,2615,1317,1315,1316,1424,9099,62,448,447,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-68970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-analyst","9":"tag-champaign","10":"tag-college","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-expects","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-illinois","16":"tag-illinois-fighting-illini-football-news","17":"tag-make","18":"tag-ncaa","19":"tag-ncaa-football","20":"tag-ncaafootball","21":"tag-playoff","22":"tag-room","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-the","25":"tag-to","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114866694716865836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}