One of the top matchups on the Illinois Fighting Illini’s college football schedule in 2024 is on October 19, against Michigan. The full slate can be found below.

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2024 Illinois Game and TV Schedule

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Illinois 2024 Strength of Schedule

• The Fighting Illini will face the 36th-ranked schedule in college football, based on their opponents’ combined win total last year (77).
• Based on its opponents’ projected win total this year, Illinois will be playing the 28th-ranked schedule in terms of difficulty.
• Taking into account their Big Ten opponents’ combined win total last season (64), the Fighting Illini have the 22nd-toughest conference schedule in college football.
• Illinois has six games scheduled against teams that put up winning records in 2023, including three teams that had nine or more wins and zero with less than four wins last year.
• The Fighting Illini have seven games scheduled against teams that made a bowl game last year.

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Illinois Stat Insights (2023)

• The Fighting Illini put up 391 yards per game offensively last season (63rd in FBS), and they allowed 377.3 yards per game (64th) on the defensive side of the ball.
• Illinois compiled 24.5 points per game on offense last season, which ranked it 83rd in FBS. Defensively, it ranked 96th, giving up 29.4 points per game.
• The Fighting Illini put up 264.6 passing yards per game offensively last year (36th in FBS), and they gave up 228.1 passing yards per game (71st) on the other side of the ball.
• Illinois totaled 126.4 rushing yards per game on offense (98th in FBS) last season, and it ranked 63rd defensively with 149.2 rushing yards allowed per game.
• Despite having a bottom-25 defense on third down that ranked 23rd-worst in FBS last season (44% third-down conversion rate), the Fighting Illini had more success offensively, ranking 97th in FBS by posting a 36% 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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