Illinois Fighting Illini football
Football team of the University of Illinois in the US
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| 2025 | Illinois Fighting Illini football plays away conference games against Indiana, Purdue, Washington, Wisconsin |
| 2025 | Illinois Fighting Illini football plays home conference games against Maryland, Northwestern, Ohio State, Rutgers, and USC |
| 2024 | David Olano sets a career field goal percentage record of 85.0% and achieves an 85.0% field goal percentage in the single season. |
| 2024 | Luke Altmyer sets a single season record with 26 total touchdowns |
| 2024 | Pat Bryant leads the career receiving touchdown list with 19 touchdowns and records 10 receiving touchdowns in a single season. |
| 2024 | Four Illinois Fighting Illini players enter the NFL as undrafted free agents, including Keith Randolph Jr. signing with the Chicago Bears as a defensive tackle and Isaiah Williams joining the Detroit Lions as a wide receiver. |
| 2024 | Illinois defeats Michigan 21-7 in Champaign, breaking Michigan's long-standing series lead dominance. |
| 2024 | Illinois won the Citrus Bowl against South Carolina with a 21-17 victory. |
| September 14 2024 | Illinois Fighting Illini football team to play Central Michigan in non-conference game |
| September 7 2024 | Illinois Fighting Illini football team to play Kansas in non-conference game |
| August 29 2024 | Illinois Fighting Illini football team to play Eastern Illinois in non-conference game |
| 2023 | Johnny Newton becomes one of the top career sack leaders with 18.0 career sacks between 2020-2023 |
| 2023 | Casey Washington records 218 receiving yards in a single game against Northwestern. |
| 2023 | Isaiah Williams ties the single-season receiving yards record with 1,055 yards. |
| 2023 | Isaiah Williams continues his impressive performance with 82 receptions in the season. |
| 2023 | John Paddock sets single-game passing yards record with 507 yards against Indiana |
| 2023 | Multiple Illinois Fighting Illini players enter the NFL as undrafted free agents, including Tommy DeVito joining the New York Giants as a quarterback. |
| 2023 | Johnny Newton named Consensus All-American for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team |
| 2023 | Johnny Newton was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. |
| 2022 | Gabe Jacas begins contributing to the team's sack record, recording 16.0 career sacks in 2022-2024 |
| 2022 | Isaiah Williams records 82 receptions in a single season for the Illinois Fighting Illini. |
| 2022 | Chase Brown had an impressive season, rushing for 1,643 yards and 10 touchdowns. |
| 2022 | Moe Gardner inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for his defensive tackle performance from 1987-1990. |
| 2022 | Devon Witherspoon named Consensus All-American for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team |
| December 30 2022 | Illinois won the Battle Box Trophy by defeating UCLA 35-40 in the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl, securing a notable bowl game victory in Bret Bielema's second season as head coach. |
| November 19 2022 | The team defeated Michigan State 23-15, marking a significant upset and improving their standing in the Big Ten conference under Bielema's leadership. |
| 2021 | James McCourt achieves 18 field goals in a single season and a 78.3% field goal percentage. |
| 2021 | Pat Bryant and Isaiah Williams continue their receiving careers, with Williams scoring receiving touchdowns. |
| 2021 | Illinois earned its first ever win over a College Football Playoff ranked opponent by defeating #20 Minnesota 14-6 in Minneapolis. |
| 2021 | Bielema led Illinois to a 5-7 record in his first year as head coach. |
| 2021 | Illinois won a historic game against #7 Penn State, 20-18, in nine overtimes - the longest game in college football history. Chase Brown set a record with 223 yards rushing at Beaver Stadium. |
| December 4 2021 | Bret Bielema led the Illinois Fighting Illini to a victory over Northwestern in a critical Big Ten West rivalry game, helping improve the team's season performance. |
| December 19 2020 | Bret Bielema was named as the 26th Head Football Coach of the Illinois Fighting Illini. |
| December 13 2020 | Lovie Smith was fired as head coach after starting the season with a 2-5 record. He concluded his tenure with an overall record of 17-39, including a 10-33 record in Big Ten Conference play. |
| December 12 2020 | Lovie Smith coached his final game with the Illinois Fighting Illini, concluding his five-year tenure with the team before being dismissed. |
| 2019 | Oluwole Betiku Jr. records 3.5 sacks in a single game against UConn and achieves 9.0 sacks in a single season |
| 2019 | Isaiah Williams and Josh Imatorbhebhe begin their receiving careers. Imatorbhebhe scores 9 receiving touchdowns in a single season. |
| 2019 | Isaiah Williams begins his receiving career for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team, playing from 2019 to 2023. |
| 2019 | Illinois football team returned to a bowl game for the first time since 2014, playing in the Redbox Bowl and finishing the season with a 6-7 record. |
| 2018 | Sydney Brown starts his impressive interceptor career, playing from 2018-2022 and recording 10 career interceptions, including 6 in the 2022 season. |
| 2018 | Dana Howard inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, celebrating his linebacker career from 1991-1994. |
| 2016 | In his first season as head coach, Lovie Smith led the Illinois Fighting Illini to a challenging inaugural season with limited success. |
| April 11 2016 | Tim Beckman settles with the University of Illinois for $250,000, with the firing 'for cause' due to player mistreatment remaining in place. |
| March 7 2016 | Lovie Smith was named head coach of the Illinois Fighting Illini football team, signing a $21 million six-year contract. He was a former head coach of the NFL's Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. |
| March 5 2016 | Illinois director of athletics Josh Whitman relieved Bill Cubit of his head coaching duties, seeking to create a more stable environment for the football program's long-term success. |
| 2015 | Geronimo Allison records 65 receptions in a single season for the Illinois Fighting Illini. |
| 2015 | Wes Lunt records 2,761 passing yards in a single season |
| November 28 2015 | Illinois formally named Bill Cubit as its 24th head coach, offering him a two-year, $2.4 million contract. |
| August 28 2015 | Bill Cubit, formerly the offensive coordinator and a former Western Michigan head coach, was named head coach of the Illinois Fighting Illini football team for the 2015 season, following the firing of Tim Beckman for alleged player mistreatment. |
| August 28 2015 | Tim Beckman was fired just before his fourth season due to an internal investigation revealing gross player mistreatment, including forcing players to play through serious injuries. |
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