Bret Bielema has yet to beat Purdue since arriving at Illinois in 2021. This week, the lllini coach is putting an emphasis on ...

With the team flourishing in Bielema’s fourth season in Champaign, Bielema has made it a priority to ensure Illinois is not ...

Illinois football coach Bret Bielama brought up the rivalry part of the Illinois-Purdue series right away this week, noting ...

Having the weekend off helped Illinois football in The Associated Press rankings. Bret Bielema's team climbed one spot to No. 23 in this week's poll, which was released Sunday afternoon. Illinois is ...

The first of two open weeks for the Illinois football team is done. Time to get back to work. As he usually does on game week, Illinois coach Bret Bielema met with the media Monday afternoon in the ...

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For the first month of the season, Illinois has been more like Rocky Balboa. Scrappy underdogs, feeling emboldened after ...

What are the toughest games left on the 2024 Fighting Illini schedule? And when will the team be heavily favored to keep ...

Purdue has lost in each of the last four weeks by a combined 140 points, fired offensive coordinator Graham Harrell after a ...

The Big Ten has become a landing zone for quarterbacks on the move. When this season opened, 14 of the 18 teams in the expanded conference had transfer quarterbacks starting. The expectations at the ...

No coach will say there's a good time to lose a game, but for the Illinois football team, the bye week couldn't have come at ...