Illinois·Big Ten

2018 — The Correction

2018 is a losing-side chapter for Illinois. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 4-8
Final result Losing season
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -4.3 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Kent Sta 31-24 W vs West Ill 34-14 L vs Sout Flo 19-25 L vs Penn St 24-63 W @ Rutgers 38-17 L vs Purdue 7-46 L @ Wiscon 20-49 L @ Maryland 33-63 W vs Minnes 55-31 L @ Nebraska 35-54 L vs Iowa 0-63 L @ Northw 16-24

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2018.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2018 season's largest margin: Illinois 55, Minnesota 31. A 24-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Illinois 0, Iowa 63. A 63-point margin the season is remembered by.

"I-L-L"
— Illinois fanbase voice · 2018· synthesized
What it meant

2018 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.