Illinois has hosted some key recruits lately and has a couple big visits coming up with priority targets. Coach Bret Bielema and his staff are hoping

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Spring football is getting underway around the country over the next month. We’ll see lots of prospects traveling around the country for campus

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With his college career in the rear-view mirror, Luke Altmyer is working his way through the pre-NFL Draft process. It started with the Senior Bowl,

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As Super Bowl weekend approached eight years ago, Bret Bielema hadn’t figured out his next move. He had been fired at Arkansas two months earlier. A

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Notre Dame hired Illinois defensive coordinator Aaron Henry as defensive backs coach and co-defensive coordinator over the weekend, opening up the

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Bret Bielema and Roger Denny didn’t always get along the last four years.   Both will tell you that. But they were also essential pieces in

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The Big Ten got a facelift during this season’s coaching carousel. Two of the top programs in the conference in Michigan and Penn State made major

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Seasons across the West are wrapping up and a busy January is ahead. Here’s the latest intel on all the top West quarterbacks:  Brady Edmunds: The

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West QB intel: Top schools, new favorites for elite quarterbacks

National Signing Day is just days away, and the 2026 recruiting class is close to locking in their final decisions and putting pen to paper. With

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National Signing Day: Analysts empty their notebooks on the 2026 class

With Billy Napier out as head coach, the University of Florida’s search for a new leader has sparked opinions from all corners of the football world

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High school coaches offer their picks to be the Florida Gators’ next head coach

As coaching salaries rise in college football, so do the buyouts. USA Today has released its updated data for the largest buyouts in the sport for

Top 25 largest buyouts for college football head coaches in 2025

There is more that is expected from college football head coaches than ever before. Along with that, being a head coach also comes with better

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No. 23 Illinois edged No. 21 USC 34-32 in an absolute thriller, giving Bret Bielema and crew quite the bounce back win. After getting blasted by Big

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Bret Bielema reacts to thrilling Illinois victory over USC: 'Our reputation was put on this field'

Illinois visits Indiana on Saturday in what has traditionally been a Big Ten snoozer but this year as the Hoosiers and the Illini have built their

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Indiana, Illinois find different paths to success in recruiting

Throughout his 27 years coaching college football, Bret Bielema has remained unabashedly the same person.  Not necessarily the same coach, mind you,

Bret Bielema has Illinois in rare air, aiming to get beyond College Football Playoff 'doorstep'

With less than a minute left in Illinois’ 45-19 win over Duke, the cameraman from the television broadcast zoomed in on Illini coach Bret Bielema.

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In effort to prove it’s a real contender, Illinois blew out a solid Duke team on the road

Bret Bielema never intended to have 23 players in Illinois’ recruiting class heading into the season. Maybe not even that many heading toward signing

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During their media days last week, the Big Ten took some very clear aim at the SEC while in Las Vegas. Because of that, Paul Finebaum has since

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Paul Finebaum blasts Big Ten for shots at SEC, calls media days a 'bust'

There isn't a single conference in college sports that doesn't want to push a narrative about itself, trying to position itself as well as possible.

Illinois coach Bret Bielema is firing back at Diego Pavia after the Vanderbilt quarterback took a shot at the Big Ten. 

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Bret Bielema on firing back at SEC narratives: ‘If you don’t stand up for yourself, no one else will’

CBS Sports ranked the Big Ten coaches from best to worst going into the 2025 college football season. The top of the list should be obvious, when it

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Realistically, not every coach in the country has a chance to win the national championship every season. However, every coach has the opportunity to

ESPN ranks Top 30 college football head coaches vs. expectations

With the new Rivals300 rankings release, we take a look at the 10 most impactful decisions so far from Midwest prospects. Many of them came during

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Don’t look now but the Illinois Fighting Illini are trying to crash the Big Ten blueblood recruiting party.  Coming off a 10-3 season and a bowl game

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Illinois crashing Big Ten blueblood recruiting party after big season

The college football season is rapidly approaching, and success is on the minds of each and every coach in the sport. However, some need to win more

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Since the announcement of Felix Ojo's commitment a week ago it's been wild to follow several elite national prospects. And not just those in 2026 but

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