Illinois·Big Ten

2016 — The Correction

2016 is a losing-side chapter for Illinois. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 3-9
Final result Losing season
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -3.8 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Murr Sta 52-3 L vs UNC 23-48 L vs West Mic 10-34 L @ Nebraska 16-31 L vs Purdue 31-34 W @ Rutgers 24-7 L @ Michigan 8-41 L vs Minnes 17-40 W vs Mich St 31-27 L @ Wiscon 3-48 L vs Iowa 0-28 L @ Northw 21-42

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2016.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2016 season's largest margin: Illinois 52, Murray State 3. A 49-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Illinois 3, Wisconsin 48. A 45-point margin the season is remembered by.

"I-L-L"
— Illinois fanbase voice · 2016· synthesized
What it meant

2016 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.