Illinois·Big Ten

2017 — The Correction

2017 is a losing-side chapter for Illinois. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 2-10
Final result Losing season
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -4.5 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Ball Sta 24-21 W vs West Ken 20-7 L @ Sout Flo 23-47 L vs Nebraska 6-28 L @ Iowa 16-45 L vs Rutgers 24-35 L @ Minnes 17-24 L vs Wiscon 10-24 L @ Purdue 10-29 L vs Indiana 14-24 L @ Ohio St 14-52 L vs Northw 7-42

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2017.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2017 season's largest margin: Illinois 20, Western Kentucky 7. A 13-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Illinois 14, Ohio State 52. A 38-point margin the season is remembered by.

"I-L-L"
— Illinois fanbase voice · 2017· synthesized
What it meant

2017 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.