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Email pictures of your game-day scene to Jim Rossow at [email protected].

Follow along all day -- and night -- as the Illini take on top-ranked Oregon at Autzen Stadium.

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Illinois fans are on the scene, hoping to spoil Oregon's first game as the nation's top-ranked team.

With the help of the Portland Illini Club, there are two organized tailgate parties taking place.

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Voice of the Illini Brian Barnhart and News-Gazette columnist Loren Tate joined a traveling party of Illini fans to the West Coast. The group left Savoy on Thursday for an extended stay.

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The Illini last beat a top-ranked team in 2007, shocking Ohio State.