Date: December 29, 2010
Venue: Reliant Stadium, Houston Texas
Time: 6:00 PM ET
Coverage: ESPN
Teams: Illinois (6-6, 4-4 Big Ten) vs Baylor (7-5, 4-4 Big 12)

Two exciting, elusive dual-threat quarterbacks in Baylor’s Robert Griffin III and Illinois’ Nathan Scheelhaase will face off in Reliant Stadium and be flanked by a pair of 1,000-yard rushers. The Illini’s Mikel Leshoure stole the show at Wrigley Field against Northwestern with a 330-yard performance, and Baylor’s Jay Finley ran for 250 yards in a win over Kansas State earlier this year.

The Texas Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game that was held for the first time in 2006 in Houston, Texas. The bowl replaced the now-defunct Houston Bowl, which was played annually from 2000 to 2005. The first bowl game in Houston was the Bluebonnet Bowl, played from 1959 through 1987.

Here we can indlude some statistics of both teams. Is important to check this stats because despite a team have good numbers it does not mean that another team from another division (with less efficient numbers) could not win against the “good team”. Here are the stats for both of the teams in order to analyze them.

Illinois
Win-Lose: 6-6
Average Points: 32.1
Average Points Allowed: 24.3
Home Record: 4-2
Road Record: 2-4
Division Record: 4-4
Conference Record: 4-4

Baylor
Win-Lose: 7-5
Average Points: 32.6
Average Points Allowed: 29.8
Home Record: 4-2
Road Record: 3-3
Division Record: 1-4
Conference Record: 4-4

Is also important to have a good idea of the performance of the key players of each team. Bellow there is a complete report of such performance which is useful to decide what team is in a better position to win the game.

Illinois Leaders
Passing: Scheelhaase – 137-241, 1583 yds, 17 tds
Rushing: Leshoure – 252 car, 1513 yds, 14 tds
Receiving: Jenkins – 50 rec, 694 yds, 7 tds

Baylor Leaders
Passing: Griffin III – 274-413, 3195 yds, 21 tds
Rushing: Finley – 183 car, 1155 yds, 11 tds
Receiving: Wright – 66 rec, 825 yds, 6 tds

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