Illinois vs. Nebraska: Box score, stats and summary feat. Dylan Raiola (Week 4)
The No. 24 Illinois Fighting Illini and No. 22 Nebraska Cornhuskers are battling it out on Friday night in Big Ten Conference action. The game has been as exciting as anticipated as we saw a back-and-forth game that wound up going to overtime.
However, the Fighting Illini would dominate in the overtime period as they scored a touchdown right away and recorded three sacks on defense to secure a 31-24 road win to improve to 4-0 (1-0 Big Ten).
Here's a deeper dive into the box score and statistics to decide how things wound up going this way for both teams.
Illinois vs. Nebraska box score
Illinois vs. Nebraska box score
Illinois box score
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Nebraska box score
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Illinois vs. Nebraska Game Summary
Both teams were able to play an extremely close game and this game lived up to the hype surrounding it. Both quarterbacks stepped up against strong defenses. The Illinois defense was able to step up in overtime to secure a win as they were able to record back-to-back sacks to make things difficult. Dylan Raiola was not able to get anything going in overtime as he took three sacks in the drive.
This game was an outstanding start to the week but Indiana was able to keep the game close and took advantage of Raiola's lack of experience later in the game.
Here is the scoring summary for how the game wound up going:
- 1Q 11:54: Luke Altmyer 27-Yard Passing TD to Pat Bryant | 7-0 Illinois
- 1Q 3:15: John Hohl 21-Yard Field Goal | 7-3 Illinois
- 1Q 0:32: Dylan Raiola 6-Yard Passing TD to Isaiah Neyor | 10-7 Nebraska
- 2Q 11:37: David Olano 26-Yard Field Goal | 10-10
- 2Q 0:16: Dylan Raiola 11-Yard Passing TD to Isaiah Neyor | 17-10 Nebraska
- 3Q 1:44: Luke Altmyer 3-Yard Passing TD to Tanner Arkin | 17-17
- 4Q 14:57: Dylan Raiola 1-Yard Passing TD to Janirian Bonner | 24-17 Nebraska
- 4Q 10:36: Luke Altmyer 6-Yard Passing TD to Brandon Henderson | 24-24
- OT: Luke Altmyer 4-Yard Passing TD to Pat Bryant | 31-24 Illinois