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It's a massive couple weeks for Illinois football.Top recruits JC Anderson and Mack Sutter are picking schools. Both are four ...

When projecting ahead as to which teams will have good years in college football, Illinois has to be up there. USC will ...

Illinois head coach Bret Bielema, who guided the Illini to a 10-win campaign and a Cheez-It Citrus Bowl triumph over South ...

And there are still a few things that Bielema emplements with his current coaching staff that he picked up from Belichick and ...

Alabama's 2026 recruiting class continues to gain speed after its third pickup in the past week -- this time from a 4-star RB who flips from Illinois.

Illinois football fans are flying high right now, as the class of 2026 is one of the best in the country. I never thought the ...

Last year's Cheez-It Citrus Bowl was a spectacle, and we aren't just talking about football. What happened on the sidelines ...

Iowa Hawkeyes' head coach Kirk Ferentz is the longest tenured coach in the nation heading into 2025. It will be Ferentz's ...

College football has seen sweeping changes the last few years. One of them, Illinois coach Bret Bielema believes, is an end ...

Bret Bielema’s approach to coaching hasn’t changed much from when he started as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, the University of Iowa, in 1994. The Silvis-born, Prophetstown-raised, head ...

Illinois is coming into 2025 with quite a season from 2024. The post Illinois OL Issues Damage Control for Bret Bielema After ...