Big Red’s Reads: Illini Prep, Soccer Win & Cage The Elephant
Happy Illinois week, Hilltopper fans. Hope everyone had a fun and safe Labor Day weekend. Here’s everything you missed across the internet…
Happy Illinois week, Hilltopper fans. Hope everyone had a fun and safe Labor Day weekend. Here’s everything you missed across the internet since WKU’s opening win on Saturday.
Chad Bishop from WBKO recapped Mike Sanford’s Monday press conference and got his initial thoughts on the Hilltoppers preparation for Illinois.
Chad also says we know nothing about WKU’s Football team after Saturday’s closer than predicted win over EKU.
WKU soccer notched an impressive 4–1 win over Evansville on Sunday.
The spread for Saturday’s game keeps growing
College Football Outpost put the Tops on top of their post-Week 1 Conference USA power rankings.
Brad Stephens discusses Lucky Jackson’s recent performance, the freshman that saw game action Saturday and Ryan Nuss claiming the kicker position in his football notebook.
CBS Sports gave Mike Sanford a B- for his season opening coaching performance.
The Champaign Room gives you takeaway’s from Illinois’ escape of Ball State.
Cage The Elephant gave WKU fans some great news out of the blue on Monday night
Coach Sanford and the WKU administration were excited about this cool development
Underdog Dynasty gave three things they learned from week one in Conference USA.
WKU volleyball had a humbling weekend in Louisville. The Tops lost to both Louisville and Illinois before rebounding with a 3–0 victory over Kent State on Saturday night.
WKU Football is in good company heading into Week 2
Three #ProTops made NFL 53-man rosters after this weekends cuts.
Four #ProTops made NFL practice squads.
We graded WKU’s 31–17 victory over EKU.
Lucky Jackson was WKU’s week one MVP and he got to raise the W yesterday.
Willie Taggart will bring his Oregon Ducks to Nebraska, his first time in Lincoln since his coaching debut at WKU.
MTSU had a celebration malfunction in the middle of their 28–6 loss to Vanderbilt.
Jeff Brohm annoyingly continues to take many of WKU’s recent traditions with him to West Lafayette.
Conference USA went just 6–7 in week one. Here are current standings
We’ll be in Champaign on Saturday providing various forms of coverage. If you ever come across an interesting WKU-related article send it our way via twitter at @TheTowelRackWKU or on our Facebook page.