{"id":47956,"date":"2022-11-19T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/illinois-head-coach-blasts-refs-after-loss-to-no-3-michigan-47956"},"modified":"2022-11-19T20:27:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:27:31","slug":"illinois-head-coach-blasts-refs-after-loss-to-no-3-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/illinois-head-coach-blasts-refs-after-loss-to-no-3-michigan-47956","title":{"rendered":"Illinois head coach blasts refs after loss to No. 3 Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/ncaa\/illinois-fighting-illini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois Fighting Illini<\/a> were on the verge of a massive upset in the Big House against No. 3 Michigan, forcing the Wolverines to convert a 4th and 3 with a minute to go, by far their most important play of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/ncaa\/michigan-wolverines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolverines&#8217; College Football Playoff<\/a> hopes were riding on the play. They got the first down, but it can certainly be argued they ran an illegal pick play.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois was called for a defensive pass interference a play later to set up Michigan&#8217;s game-winning 35-yard field goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Illinois head coach Bret Bielema criticized the officials after the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely pissed off. Very angry. Very upset,&#8221; Bielema told reporters, via CBS Sports. &#8220;I think our kids did a lot to win the football game and to continually just have things go against us, very frustrated. You&#8217;ve got to stand up for your people that you believe in. I believe in our locker room big time, and I know that they&#8217;ll rise up to the challenge once again.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/companies\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bielema also took to Twitter<\/a> to throw shade at the refs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/michigan-survives-against-illinois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NO. 3 MICHIGAN SURVIVES AGAINST UNRANKED ILLINOIS, KEEPS COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF HOPES ALIVE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will work all week in practice to defend this play especially on 4th down,&#8221; he said in a tweet in which the controversial fourth down conversion is shared.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois entered the fourth quarter with a 17-10 lead but allowed three unanswered field goals in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan improved to 11-0, setting up a must-watch game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/ncaa\/ohio-state-buckeyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No. 2 Ohio State<\/a> next week in Columbus. It&#8217;ll be the first time the two teams face off as undefeated squads since 2006, a game dubbed the &#8220;Game of the Century,&#8221; which ended in a 42-39 win for the Buckeyes at home.<\/p>\n<p>The Illini fell to 7-4 and 4-4 in conference play, one game behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/ncaa-fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Purdue, Iowa, and Minnesota<\/a>, making their chance at a Big 10 championship game appearance much more difficult.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/illinois-head-coach-blasts-refs-loss-no-3-michigan\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/illinois-head-coach-blasts-refs-loss-no-3-michigan <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Fighting Illini were on the verge of a massive upset in the Big House against No. 3 Michigan, forcing the Wolverines to convert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-47956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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