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This is a list of seasons completed by the Illinois Fighting Illini football program since the team's conception in 1890. The list documents season-by-season records, and conference records from 1890 to the present.
The Fighting Illini compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 27 head coaches, and two interim head coaches, since it began play during the 1890 season. Since December 2020, Bret Bielema has served as head coach at Illinois. [1]
On December 19, 2020, Bret Bielema was named as the 26th Fighting Illini Head Football Coach. [160] Bielema led Illinois to a 5-7 record in his first year with the Fighting Illini in 2021, including road wins that gained national notoriety over #7 Penn State and #20 Minnesota to give Bielema more AP/CFP ranked wins than any other first-year ...
The 2024 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represents the University of Illinois as a member of the Big Ten Conference during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Fighting Illini are led by Bret Bielema in his fourth season as the team's head coach .
Bret Arnold Bielema (/ ˈ b iː l ə m ɑː /; born January 13, 1970) is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a position he has held since the 2021 season. Bielema served as the head football coach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 2006 to 2012, achieving a 68–24 ...
The Illinois football team dropped to No. 25 in the latest US LBM Coaches Poll on Sunday, one day after the Fighting Illini lost to the Penn State Nittany Lions, 21-7, in a Big Ten Conference game ...
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) includes 134 teams. Each team has one head coach. [1] In addition to the head coach, most teams also have at least one offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator; [1] however, the head coach will sometimes assume one of these roles as well.
The Illinois football season is near and Bret Bielema and the Illini could make a bowl game. Here are the three most important games for the Illini in 2024.