Illinois football is ranked pretty high. But how likely are the Illini to win the Big Ten or make the College Football ...

UCLA is just weeks away from starting its second season in the Big Ten. After capturing seven Big Ten championships during ...

The Illini return their starting quarterback and entire offensive line from last season, but that's just the beginning of what they bring back ...

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

RJ Young reveals his "Ultimate 136" college football rankings ahead of the 2025 season. Here's where the Fighting Illini land.

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

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

Seaman, a 6-foot-5, 265-pound blocker from Columbus, Ohio, announced that he had received an offer from the Illini on Saturday ...

Metamora football icon Pat Ryan heads into his fifth season thriving as Illinois football's director of high school relations.

INDIANAPOLIS – Bret Bielema was just 35 years old when he learned he would replace Barry Alvarez as Wisconsin’s head coach after the 2005 college football season. He was 42 when he coached his ...

What's good for Illinois football, of course, is Bielema's primary focus. But the longtime coach — about to enter his 17th ...

“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 ...