Game Preview: Bielema & Leipold Linked For Two Decades & For One Strange Dec. 2020 Evening

Matt Stevens, IlliniGuys Staff Writer

September 8, 2023

Illinois at Kansas 

Date/Time/Place: Friday, Sept. 7, 2023: 6:30 p.m. CST, David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium 

Surface: Field Turf 

Capacity: 47,233

Records: Illinois 1-0; Kansas 1-0

Betting Line: Kansas by 3

Series notes: Illinois leads all-time series 3-2. Kansas and Illinois are set to meet for the first since 1968.

TV: ESPN2; Anish Shroff (play-by-play), Andre Ware (analyst) Paul Carcaterra (sideline)

Radio (Illinois): Brian Barnhart (PBP), Martin O'Donnell (analysis), Michael Martin (sidelines) & Steve Kelly (Pre/HT/Post) » The broadcast can . . .

 

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