If Southern Illinois wins Saturday, where does it rank among top sporting events in school history?
A few other media types and I were talking about this possibility Tuesday. If SIU wins, I say it’s about third on SIU’s top football wins behind the 1983 national championship and the win over Tulsa back in the 1960s when Tulsa was a top 20 team. It’s close to the NIT basketball championship, but with Illinois coming off a bad season and missing a few defensive starters, it would lose a little bit of luster. A little bit. It would still be a big-time win. Do the wins by North Dakota State and Jacksonville State embolden the Salukis? Absolutely. SIU will come into this game very confident. None of their players, except maybe senior wideout Anthony Seay, who played in five games in 2006, had any role in the win over Indiana that year, but the team is confident. SIU coach Dale Lennon said his team doesn’t have to do “anything out of the ordinary” to be successful. With North Dakota State beating Kansas without scoring a touchdown, even as bad as Kansas was in that game, it gives anybody a
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