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List of Illinois Fighting Illini football seasons. 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 1896 to the present. [ 1][ 2][ 3][ 4]
He was the third head football coach at Illinois, held that position for the 1892 and 1893 seasons, and led the team to a record of 12–6–4 in his two years as head coach. [5] His 1892 team compiled a 9–4–1 record, played the first games in the football rivalries with Northwestern and Chicago , and played six road games in nine days ...
The Tigers have three national championship titles ( 1981, 2016 and 2018) along with two other national championship appearances in 2015 and 2019. [ 2] The Tigers have claimed 26 conference championships and have appeared in 50 postseason bowl games with an overall record of 27-23. [ 3] Clemson now has over 750 wins in its program.
In the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Bears have the most enshrined primary members with 32; the club also has had eight Hall of Famers spend a minor portion of their career with the franchise. [293] Founder, owner, head coach, and player George Halas, halfback Bronko Nagurski , and Red Grange were a part of the original class of inductees in 1963.
The history of Clemson Tigers football began in 1896, when Clemson University first fielded a football team. Since 1896, the program has an all-time record of 790–466–44, with a bowl record of 28–22. The program has achieved 3 claimed national titles in 1981, 2016, and 2018.
Their first meeting, in 1999, was the first time in Division I-A history that a father and a son met as opposing head coaches in a football game. Bobby Bowden won the first four matchups extending FSU's winning streak over Clemson to 11 dating back to 1992. Since 2003, Clemson is 11–6, including a 26–10 win in Clemson over then-No. 3 FSU.
Since October 2008, Dabo Swinney has served as Clemson's head coach. [ 2] The team has played in 1,050 games over 116 seasons. [ 3] In that time, eight coaches have led Clemson to postseason bowl games: Jess Neely, Frank Howard, Charley Pell, Danny Ford, Ken Hatfield, Tommy West, Tommy Bowden, and Swinney. [ 1]
Clemson Rugby was founded in 1967. Although rugby is a club sport at Clemson, the team receives significant support from the university and from the Clemson Rugby Foundation, which was founded in 2007 by Clemson alumni. [69] Clemson rugby has been led since 2010 by head coach Justin Hickey, [70] who has also served as team manager for the U.S ...