College Football
Illinois Fighting Illini football
Across 43 Illinois football games in our records, see how results change by season, which opponents appear most often, and which final-score digits are most common.
Season-by-season results
Illinois finished above .500 in two of the four seasons in our records.
Each row shows the season's record, its result sequence (green is a win, red is a loss), and points per game, newest first.
2026 2-3 5 games 30.6 Pts/game
2025 9-4 13 games 29.4 Pts/game
2024 10-3 13 games 28.3 Pts/game
2023 5-7 12 games 24.5 Pts/game
Game records begin in 2023; final-score digit tracking begins with the 2024 season.
Final-score digit patterns
0 is Illinois' most common final digit: 6 of 31 finals, with no clear separation.
Each tracked final contributes one digit: the last digit of the team's score. Across the 31 finals our digit records cover, 0 leads with 6, and nothing else gets close enough to call it a habit.
0
6 of 31 finals
03 1
2 2
2 3
2 4
4 5
1 6
4 7
5 8
2 9
Drawn from 2024–26, the three seasons our digit records cover, 31 games.
Opponent records 
Boilermakers 2-2 
Wildcats 2-1 
Terrapins 2-0 
Scarlet Knights 2-0 
Blue Devils 1-1 
Hoosiers 1-1 
Jayhawks 1-1 
Golden Gophers 1-1
The Purdue Boilermakers are Illinois' most-played opponent: 4 meetings in our records.
The table covers 28 opponents since 2023, ordered by meetings. Each bar shows Illinois' win rate in that series; each row opens the full head-to-head.
Boilermakers 2-2 Wildcats 2-1 Terrapins 2-0 Scarlet Knights 2-0 Blue Devils 1-1 Hoosiers 1-1 Jayhawks 1-1 Golden Gophers 1-1 Twenty more opponents in our records. Every series has a head-to-head page, however short it runs.
This week
They play Saturday.
Week 6 Illinois at Michigan State Spartans
Sat, Oct 10 · 12:30 PM PDT
Illinois at Michigan State Spartans Sat, Oct 10 · 12:30 PM PDT