Illinois·Big Ten

2015 — The Correction

2015 is a losing-side chapter for Illinois. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 5-7
Final result Losing season
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -0.9 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Kent Sta 52-3 W vs West Ill 44-0 L @ UNC 14-48 W vs Midd Ten 27-25 W vs Nebraska 14-13 L @ Iowa 20-29 L vs Wiscon 13-24 L @ Penn St 0-39 W @ Purdue 48-14 L vs Ohio St 3-28 L @ Minnes 23-32 L vs Northw 14-24

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2015.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2015 season's largest margin: Illinois 52, Kent State 3. A 49-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Illinois 0, Penn State 39. A 39-point margin the season is remembered by.

"I-L-L"
— Illinois fanbase voice · 2015· synthesized
What it meant

2015 sits in Illinois's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.