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Steve Sturm, IlliniGuys Football Analyst

December 3, 2021

Illinois got its second big commitment in two days Tuesday with the addition of cornerback Elijah Mc-Cantos. 

Thanks to several upset wins last weekend, Illinois will not be invited to a bowl game with a 5-7 record this season. 

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

December 2, 2021

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The math has not worked out for Illinois to be included in the 2021 bowl season. 

Steve Sturm, IlliniGuys Football Analyst

December 1, 2021

Magnus Moller and Bret Bielema courtesy Magnus Moller Twitter

Illinois' football team did something that it hasn't done in the long history of the program on Monday when it obtained a commitment from a player who has never played a game of football on this continent, or even this hemisphere. 

Former walk-on Doug Kramer ended his fifth-year career as […]

I hope all of you enjoyed Saturday's beating of Northwestern as much as I did.  After enduring so many last game beat downs by the Wildcats in recent years it was nice to have the shoe on the other foot for once.  If anyone in purple dares to show any arrogance to any member of Illini Nation for the next year, you should feel free to do what Casey Washington did when a defender confronted him on Saturday night:

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Joseph becomes the first Illinois defensive back to be […]

Kedric Prince - IlliniGuys.com Director of Recruiting

November 29th. 2021

Magnus Moller courtesy his Twitter

Magnus Moller, a 6-foot-9, 300-pound OT picked Illinois over Louisville, Cincinnati, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan and went wire to wire with the Cardinals to get this verbal.

IlliniGuys football beat writer/analyst Matt Stevens does not have an Associated Press Top 25 ballot this season but if he did, this is how he'd fill it out.

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

November 28. 2021

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- We have ourselves the potential for a real Midwest party in the College Football Playoff. 

For the first time since the adoption of it, Illinois will hold the Land of Lincoln Trophy after a convincing victory over Northwestern.

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

November 28, 2021

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Owen Carney has certainly accomplished a lot in his five-year college career but his legacy as an Illinois football player might just be what he wrote on a white dry erase board. 

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- If this is the last image for Brandon Peters as an Illinois football player, it is most certainly a good one.

The sixth-year quarterback finished his final collegiate regular season game with 242 yards through the air and a touchdown in a 47-14 victory in the annual in-state rivalry game vs. Northwestern. After his final performance as a player in Champaign, Peters also got to joke that the other university that he earned a bachelor’s degree from in 2019 won a relatively big rivalry game on Saturday referencing in a low-key way Michigan’s 42-27 win over Ohio State. 

“Don’t get wrong because I’ll always consider myself an Illini but yeah, I think I’m the only guy in that locker room that went 2-0 today,” Peters said. 

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The proof of the University of Illinois football program heading in a positive direction can come from nothing more than where Samuel M'Pemba started his weekend. 

M'Pemba, a five-star athlete in the 2023 recruiting class, was on the Illinois campus Friday for an unofficial visit as he begins to narrow down the many scholarship offers he’s received since last spring. 

The 6-foot-4, 230-pound multi-talented athlete currently plays at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., while being listed as a wide receiver while lining up mostly as a tight end or H-back for the nationally-recognized prep school but most college programs are recruiting him at the next level as a stand-up pass rusher.