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

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

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

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These five college football programs have the depth, talent, and schedule to break through and show staying power.

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

Thanks to the wonders of me never deleting emails, I know my days as an Associated Press Top 25 voter date back to 2009. Kind of weird how I got the gig. That year, The AP made changes in how it doled ...

Today, we break new ground for Tomorrow's Top 25 Today as we undertake what is quite possibly a fool's errand: predicting ...

As the Big Ten gears up to try and win a third consecutive national championship, there are some coaches among the ranks who ...

At the AP, my job was to administer the poll, so I knew that as a first-time voter I'd be undertaking a challenge with no ...

Few coaches in our region have blazed a trail like Illinois' Bret Bielema He now has Illini fans dreaming about the college football playoffs.

It has been impressive what the Illinois football program has done with the quarterback room. Under Bret Bielema, the Illini continue to land talented quarterba ...