In their seventh year under head coach Ray Eliot, the Illini compiled a 3–6 record and finished in eighth place in the Big Ten Conference.

[1] End James Valek was selected as the team's most valuable player.

23 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System ratings for 1948.

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