1996 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

1996 Illinois Fighting Illini football
Conference Big Ten Conference
1996 record 29 (17 Big Ten)
Head coach Lou Tepper
Home stadium Memorial Stadium
(Capacity: 70,904)
1996 Big Ten football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 2 Ohio State +  7 1     11 1  
No. 15 Northwestern +  7 1     9 3  
No. 7 Penn State  6 2     11 2  
No. 18 Iowa  6 2     9 3  
No. 20 Michigan  5 3     8 4  
Michigan State  5 3     6 6  
Wisconsin  3 5     8 5  
Purdue  2 6     3 8  
Minnesota  1 7     4 7  
Indiana  1 7     3 8  
Illinois  1 7     2 9  
  • + Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1996 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign during the 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season. They participated as members of the Big Ten Conference. Their home games were played at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. The team's head coach was Lou Tepper, who was fired as head coach of the Illini after the end of the season. Illinois had a record of 2–9 and failed to make a bowl game.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance
August 31 2:30 PM at No. 12 Michigan Michigan StadiumAnn Arbor, Michigan ABC L 820   105,992
September 7 2:30 PM No. 19 USC* Memorial StadiumChampaign, Illinois ABC L 355   56,504
September 14 9:00 PM at Arizona* Arizona StadiumTucson, Arizona FSN L 041   43,012
September 21 1:00 PM Akron* Memorial Stadium • Champaign, Illinois W 387   48,285
October 5 1:00 PM Indiana Memorial Stadium • Champaign, Illinois W 4643   55,534
October 12 11:20 AM at Michigan State Spartan StadiumEast Lansing, Michigan ESPN+ L 1442   71,639
October 26 11:20 AM at No. 11 Northwestern Dyche StadiumEvanston, Illinois (Sweet Sioux Tomahawk) ESPN+ L 2427   48,187
November 2 11:20 AM No. 25 Iowadagger Memorial Stadium • Champaign, Illinois ESPN+ L 2131   54,381
November 9 11:30 AM No. 2 Ohio State Memorial Stadium • Champaign, Illinois ESPN L 048   54,412
November 16 6:00 PM at Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey MetrodomeMinneapolis L 2123   34,321
November 23 1:00 PM Wisconsin Memorial Stadium • Champaign, Illinois L 1535   37,814
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Central Time.

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References

  1. "fightingillini.com". Archived from the original on 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2012-11-20.


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