NCAA Football 2009 Predictions

While perusing ESPN.com today I came across their weekly NCAA Football 2009 prediction page, where ESPN simulates the week's games using the aforementioned video game, and posts the results and statistics. According to the simulation, Penn State will beat Illinois 32-29. Here is the link.

http://sports.espn.go.com/videogames/simulation/ncf?id=3607778

Well, since the game missed so badly on the Trojans v. Beavers game last night (35-14), on a related note, I was surprised by how hostile the crowd was last night, I thought Beavers loved Trojans, or maybe it's Trojans love Beavers (drum roll please)... but I digress, since the game missed so badly, I thought that I'd put my own copy of the game and my playing skills to the test in a little weekly feature that we'll call DurtyButter plays NCAA Football 2009 to predict the winner, and here is this week's results and statistics...

Illini 70 - Penn State 7

Statistics:

Passing:
Juice Williams 20-22, 358 yds, 5 tds, 0 ints (playing 3 quarters)
Eddie McGee 7-10, 120 yds, 1 td, 0 ints

Rushing:
Juice Williams 10-97, 2 tds
Eddie McGee 3-20
Daniel Dufrene 9-100, 1td
Jason Ford 5-40, 1td

Receiving:
Arrelious Benn 8-232, 3tds
Will Judson 4-41, 1td
Chris Duvalt 3-50
Daniel DuFrene 4-90, 1td
Jason Ford 3-20
Michael Hoomanawanui 5-45, 1td

Defensive Stand Outs:
Vontae Davis 7 tkls (2 for loss), 2 ints
Martez Wilson 2 sacks
Will Davis 10 tkls (3 for loss), 1 sack

So, as you can see, the Illini should feel pretty good about the game this weekend because I'm pretty sure that this is a pretty scientific test of the actual matchup.