Illinois Fighting Illini vs. Ohio State 2002 (Football)

The #1 ranked(BCS rankings)Ohio State Buckeyes come to Illinois and win in overtime with the help of a controversial call.

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[BillyBong05]

I love how Illinois players celebrate every good play like they just won the national title. I guess that's what happens when you only beat the Bucks once every 30 years. Looking at those 2 OT plays that are hotly debated: the first one was a good call. Fox didn't push him out of bounds, his first foot landed out. The second one, though...I think that was a TD, and had there been replay it would have been counted as such. However, OSU was not going to lose if the game went to 2 or more OTs

[docsdaname2000]

@BillyBong05 that whole "once every 30 years" argument would make a lot more sense if ohio state and illinois hadn't played to a virtual draw the last 20 or so years.

[codyskidmoree]

it's how this video has NFL primetime music haha

and ohio state won fairly, stupid bitter illini fans.

[docsdaname2000]

your comment doesn't make sense.

[Juiceroids]

OSU wasnt #1 during this game and then calls were clean...haters.

[docsdaname2000]

#1 in the BCS rankings. And walter young had possession.

[mully160]

@aydog your an idiot look at all those calls with an unbiased mindset they are good calls, remember back then there was no replay oh and anyone OSU has ever produced is way better then any Illinin clown

[mully160]

@docsdaname2000 he was bobbling dumbass cant call it a catch when you finally have possession out of bounds

[mully160]

@BillyBong05 he was still bobbling that ball

[bucksfan230]

illinois got screwed on the second call for sure. that was a catch 100 % of the time. this game i why i hate it when osu plays illinois, no matter how much better we look or are ranked coming in to the game, its always a dogfight

[zabes22]

I'm pretty sure that there was no force out rule in NCAA in 02, so the WR has to get one foot down no matter what, either way it is not a reviewable play. The second one was incomplete, did not gain possession of the ball until he was in mid-air, his foot and knee hit at the same time and his knee was out of bounds, incomplete.

[aydog]

THE BLOWHIO TAINT university, where we have 1 Tainted title in the last 40 years that we brag about but nobody respects lmao!

[ashwshaw2000]

I'm an IL fan and I was at this game. At the time I thought both calls were bad calls in OT, but now I can't really say that. Even with replay the Walter Young incompletion would be hard to overturn.

This is still the best football game I have ever attended. Walter Young abused Dustin Fox all game, but Michael Jenkins also torched Mike Hall I think it was all game. Notice at the end OSU put Brian Gamble on Young instead of Fox. Funny thing is Fox played great in the Fiesta Bowl.

[ashwshaw2000]

I'm an IL fan and I was at this game. At the time I thought both calls were bad calls in OT, but now I can't really say that. Even with replay the Walter Young incompletion would be hard to overturn.

This is still the best football game I have ever attended. Walter Young abused Dustin Fox all game, but Michael Jenkins also torched our secondary. Notice at the end OSU put Brian Gamble on Young instead of Fox. Funny thing is Fox played great in the Fiesta Bowl.

[ashwshaw2000]

I'm an IL fan and I was at that game. At the time I thought both calls in OT were bad calls, but of course I was drunk out of my mind then. Now seeing the replay the Walter Young catch MIGHT have been a TD, but even w/ replay it would have been hard to overturn that.

Walter Young made Dustin Fox his bitch that night. Too bad our secondary sucked and our DB's never looked back for the ball cuz Michael Jenkins had his best game of the year that night to.