The Detroit Lions are looking for a playoff win at home this weekend when they take on the Washington Commanders on Saturday ...

Illinois track and field opened up the season at the UI Armory, hosting two other programs for the Fighting Illini Open.

Illinois couldn't find an answer against the Trojans on Saturday, resulting in just their second double-digit loss of the ...

From preseason picks, through the regular season — all the way to the postgame Cheez-It dump — here is every story the Journal Star wrote about the Illini football team in 2024: The Illini ...

Illinois football isn't immune to movement in the transfer portal. Since the portal opened in early December, more than a dozen Illini jumped in — and the program also added a few names.

Maxwell asserts: ‘Everything rises and falls on leadership.’ The 2024 Illinois football program was rooted in authentic Illini tradition by our leader and my teammate, Josh Whitman.

The Illini boasted one of the youngest rosters in all of the Football Bowl Subdivision this year with only 14 players in the final season of eligibility — and it still finished as one of the ...

What was this 21-17 Citrus Bowl victory over South Carolina if not the best damn day Illinois football has had in well over a decade? And for Illini coach Bret Bielema, what was it if not the very ...

University of Illinois football fans at Joe’s on Weed Street celebrate a defensive play as the Fighting Illini battle the South Carolina Gamecocks in the Citrus Bowl. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun ...

Bret Bielema is the head coach of the Illinois Fighting Illini football team. He was appointed as the 26th head coach in December 2020. In his first year, the team achieved a 5-7 record in 2021 ...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and U.S. House Rep. Nikki Budzinski both praised the Illinois Fighting Illini football team for winning the 2024 Citrus Bowl on Tuesday. Illinois defeated South ...