No. 22 Illinois still has some big goals to achieve. The Illini can match their highest win total in 17 years and move within ...

During the last couple minutes of Saturday's win against Rutgers, Illinois head coach Bret Bielema was on the verge of ...

Illinois football pulled out a miracle win over Rutgers, and Bret Bielema had some fun with a fan who made a Matt Eberflus ...

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Trailing by one at the 40-yard line with 14 seconds to play and no timeouts, Illinois coach Bret Bielema sent in a play known ...

Illinois coach Bret Bielema was available Monday afternoon ahead of Saturday’s regular season finale against Northwestern at ...

As crazy as the Illini (8-3) making a real push up the College Football Playoff rankings on Tuesday? Uh, no. Seven teams ...

Will new coaches have time to cobble together a recruiting class? How will this impact the way schools approach the transfer ...

It was the second time his team reached the eight-win threshold in the Bret Bielema era. In 2022, Illinois had an 8-5 season and a trip to the ReliaQuest Bowl. To make things even more humorous ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — For months on end, Bret Bielema has had contingency plans in place should COVID-19 affect his football program. He made them, examined them, double-checked them. Now ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Bret Bielema is a big believer in routines and schedules, so much so that as he prepared his Illini football team for Monday’s first fall scrimmage, he altered the schedule ...

Bielema was yet another coach that had nothing but praise for Oregon's third-year coach during his weekly press conference. The former Wisconsin and Arkansas coach said he met Lanning a few years ...