Eastern Illinois will face off against Southern Illinois Salukis Saturday November 26 at O'Brien Stadium in Charleston, Ill. for the first round of Division I-AA football playoffs.Eastern with a record of 9-2 in the regular season will be without their starting strong safety Tristan Burge. According to a team source Burge broke his ankle when trying to pick off a pass during the last play of their game vs. Jacksonville State Saturday.
Defense has been a major key in many of Eastern's games this year.
Eastern was an automatic bid after beating Jacksonville 10-6 Saturday. The Salukis (8-3) won an at-large-bid into the playoffs.
Eastern Illionois has been to the playoffs 6 times under head coach Spoo's 18 year reign, losing in the first round each year except in 1989 when the Panthers reach the quarterfinals.
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of course, i'm not there anymore, so eastern does well. p.s. this is ast sarah (not galey...hailey).
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