The Illinois Fighting Illini’s college football schedule for 2024 includes meeting Michigan on October 19. Keep scrolling to check out the full slate.

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2024 Illinois Game and TV Schedule

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Illinois 2024 Strength of Schedule

• According to their opponents’ combined win total last season, the Fighting Illini will be playing the 36th-ranked schedule in terms of difficulty.
• According to its opponents’ projected win total this year, Illinois will be playing the 28th-ranked schedule in terms of difficulty.
• Based on their Big Ten opponents’ combined win total last year (64), the Fighting Illini have the 22nd-hardest conference schedule in college football.
• Illinois has a schedule that includes six games in 2024 against teams with winning records in 2023 (three of those teams won nine or more games and zero of them had three or fewer wins).
• The Fighting Illini have seven games scheduled against teams that made a bowl game last year.

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Illinois Stat Insights (2023)

• The Fighting Illini totaled 391 yards per game on offense last season (63rd in FBS), and they ranked 64th on the other side of the ball with 377.3 yards allowed per game.
• Illinois totaled 24.5 points per game on offense last season (83rd in FBS), and it ranked 96th on the other side of the ball with 29.4 points allowed per game.
• The Fighting Illini totaled 264.6 passing yards per game on offense last season, which ranked them 36th in FBS. On the defensive side of the ball, they ranked 71st, surrendering 228.1 passing yards per contest.
• Illinois totaled 126.4 rushing yards per game on offense last year (98th in FBS), and it allowed 149.2 rushing yards per game (63rd) on the other side of the ball.
• The Fighting Illini sported the 97th-ranked third-down offense last season (36% third-down percentage), but they were worse defensively, ranking 23rd-worst with a 44% third-down conversion rate allowed.
• Illinois forced 14 total turnovers (105th in FBS) last season and turned it over 22 times (112th in FBS) to record a turnover margin of -8, the 12th-worst in college football.

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