The Fighting Illini played home games at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois.

Key players included senior quarterback Tommy DeVito and junior running back Chase Brown.

The Fighting Illini will host Big Ten foes Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan State, and Purdue and will travel to Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Michigan and Northwestern.

[3] The Fighting Illini will host all three of their non-conference opponents, Wyoming from the Mountain West, Virginia from ACC, and Chattanooga from Division I FCS.

Illinois won for the first time in nine tries in the series since the two teams became part of the Big Ten West.