The 2018 season's largest margin: Illinois 55, Minnesota 31. A 24-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2018 — The Correction
2018 is a losing-side chapter for Illinois. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- AJ BushQB1,413 passing yards
- M.J. Rivers IIQB442 passing yards
- Reggie CorbinRB1,085 rushing yards
- Mike EpsteinRB411 rushing yards
- Ra'Von BonnerRB410 rushing yards
- Ricky SmallingWR406 receiving yards
- Sam MaysWR331 receiving yards
- Dominic StampleyWR311 receiving yards
- Jake HansenLB95 tackles
- Del'Shawn PhillipsLB95 tackles
- Bobby RoundtreeDL67 tackles
Season leaders, 2018.
The season's deepest loss: Illinois 0, Iowa 63. A 63-point margin the season is remembered by.
"I-L-L"
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.