The Illini face a huge season entering this fall, as Bret Bielema is in his fifth year in Champaign. Illinois finished 10-3 ...

The 2025 schedule sets up well for Illinois, which faces just three of the eight teams with better odds to win the Big Ten ...

Before Bret Bielema arrived in Champaign, the Illini struggled to recruit the state of Illinois. In four years, that’s ...

To understand Illinois football's rise, you must embrace Bret Bielema's swagger. This job, and place, suit him. And his team ...

Just one consecutive winning season since 1990. That’s when Illinois went 7-6 in both 2010 and 2011.The program looks to break a decades-long struggle of incons ...

The Illini aim to break through to the national spotlight after posting their first double-digit win season since 2001 last year.

I get it. I understand it,” Bielema said. “Everything seems to go back to 1990 or 2008 (Illinois rankings milestones). “I’m ...

One of Illinois’s returning linemen will be limited during the first week of preseason camp. Bret Bielema shared with the ...

Bret Bielema’s Illini football team will kick off the 2025 season in 24 days. CHAMPAIGN — Based on ballyhooed player ...

If the poll is any indication, Bret Bielema's peers think much more highly of the Illini this season than a number of experts ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Bret Bielema had an odd introduction to the Illinois football team. With a pandemic raging through the country, Bielema had to address his players ...

“I really didn’t talk much back then,” Bret Bielema says, smiling, acknowledging the irony. “I didn’t have a great gift of gab, I guess.” He is 12 minutes into a conversation that goes ...