Illinois football coach Bret Bielema knows expectations for his team in 2025 have – relatively speaking – shot right through ...

Entering his fifth season as Illinois coach, Bret Bielema has quickly begun to realize his ever-evolving expectations for ...

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Illinois won 10 games in 2024 including the Citrus Bowl. Here is how the Illini and coach Bret Bielema ranked in the final ...

The Fighting Illini's Bret Bielema is the latest college football head coach to visit Dunlap's Mack Sutter this month.

Even as the Illini celebrate their best finish in 23 years, jockeying for position in the 2025 rankings has already begun ...

Illinois was one of five Big Ten teams that ended the season ranked. Unsurprisingly, the other four were the College Football Playoff teams. Ohio State not only won its first national title in a ...

Bret Bielema and the Illinois football staff this week could be found ... Illini end their 2024 season in Orlando and the Sunshine State with a 21-17 Citrus Bowl win over South Carolina, but ...

Former Illinois Fighting Illini wide receiver Kenari Wilcher announced he’s transferring to play football at FAMU. He has two ...

The Illinois football team ranked a season-high No ... teams in the final poll along with No. 1 national champion Ohio State, No. 4 Oregon, No. 5 Penn State and No. 10 Indiana.