On August 29, the Illinois Fighting Illini will open their 2024 college football schedule versus Eastern Illinois, an FCS opponent. Keep scrolling for more info.

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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 year, the Fighting Illini will be facing the 36th-ranked schedule in terms of toughness.
• Illinois is playing the 28th-ranked schedule this season (based on its opponents’ projected win total this year).
• According to their Big Ten opponents’ combined win total last year (64), the Fighting Illini have the 22nd-hardest conference schedule in college football.
• Illinois’ schedule has six games against teams that finished over .500 in 2023 (three against teams with nine or more wins and zero against squads that accumulated less than four wins).
• The Fighting Illini will have seven teams on their schedule this season that made a bowl game in 2023.

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Illinois Stat Insights (2023)

• The Fighting Illini totaled 391.0 yards per game on offense last season, which ranked them 63rd in FBS. Defensively, they ranked 64th, surrendering 377.3 yards per game.
• Illinois compiled 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 (36th in FBS), and they ranked 71st defensively with 228.1 passing yards allowed per game.
• Illinois totaled 126.4 rushing yards per game offensively last year (98th in FBS), and it gave up 149.2 rushing yards per game (63rd) on defense.
• Despite having a bottom-25 defense on third down that ranked 23rd-worst in FBS last season (44.0% third-down conversion rate), the Fighting Illini put up better results on the other side of the ball, ranking 97th in FBS by putting up a 36.0% third-down conversion rate.
• Illinois forced 14 total turnovers (105th in FBS) last season and turned it over 22 times (112th in FBS) to register a turnover margin of -8, the 12th-worst in college football.

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