Illinois head football coach Bret Bielema hosted several high school recruits for their official visits.This included two ...

Illinois recently picked up three-star linebacker Tony Williams for its defensive line, along with 12 other hard commits.

Creighton is the latest team to pass the torch from a program legend — in this case, Greg McDermott — to a successor who ...

Bret Bielema and Atsushi Saijo met in 1994 in Iowa City, Iowa. At the time, Bielema was a graduate assistant for the Hawkeyes ...

Bret Bielema has known Atsushi Saijo for more than 30 years, with the veteran football coach from Japan stopping by Champaign ...

Teams across college football took part in their ninth practices of the spring on Saturday. Illinois football’s practice had ...

A tight end from Downers Groves North could be an Illini in 2026.Junior Will Vala was offered a scholarship by head coach ...

Following a 21-17 win over South Carolina in the Citrus Bowl on Tuesday, Illinois head coach Bret Bielema spoke to the media about the game. Below is a transcript of what he had to say.

Bielema does hold a distant family relationship — he thinks fourth cousins — to Illinois head football coach Bret Bielema. “I’ve got that question quite a bit,” he said with a laugh.

College coaches are only allowed 15 spring practices, but Illini head coach Bret Bielema used one of them to allow the mothers, aunts, grandmothers or sisters to participate in Saturday's "light ...