1923 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

1923 Illinois Fighting Illini football
National champion (Boand, CFRA, Helms, Davis) Co-national champion (QPRS, NCF, Sagarin-ELO) Big Ten co-champion
Conference	Big Ten Conference
1923 record	8–0 (5–0 Big Ten)
Head coach	Robert Zuppke

1923 Big Ten football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Illinois +	5	–	0	–	0			8	–	0	–	0
Michigan +	4	–	0	–	0			8	–	0	–	0
Chicago	5	–	1	–	0			7	–	1	–	0
Minnesota	2	–	1	–	1			5	–	1	–	1
Iowa	3	–	3	–	0			5	–	3	–	0
Indiana	2	–	2	–	0			3	–	4	–	0
Wisconsin	1	–	3	–	1			3	–	3	–	1
Ohio State	1	–	4	–	0			3	–	4	–	1
Purdue	1	–	4	–	0			2	–	5	–	1
Northwestern	0	–	6	–	0			2	–	6	–	0
+ – Conference co-champions

The 1923 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the 1923 college football season. The Fighting Illini compiled an 8–0 record (5–0 against Western Conference opponents) and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 136 to 20.^[1] The team was selected retroactively as the national champion by the Boand System, College Football Researchers Association, Helms Athletic Foundation, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the Berryman QPRS system, National Championship Foundation, and Jeff Sagarin (using the ELO-Chess methodology).^[2]

Guard Jim McMillen and halfback Red Grange were consensus All-Americans.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
10/06/1923	Nebraska*	Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL	W 24–7
10/13/1923	Butler*	Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL	W 21–7
10/20/1923	at Iowa	Iowa Field • Iowa City, IA	W 9–6
10/27/1923	at Northwestern	Northwestern Field • Evanston, IL	W 29–0
11/3/1923	Chicago	Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL	W 7–0
11/10/1923	Wisconsin	Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL	W 10–0
11/17/1923	Mississippi State*	Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL	W 27–0
11/24/1923	at Ohio State	Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH	W 9–0
*Non-conference game. Homecoming.

References

1. "1923 Illinois Fighting Illini Schedule and Results".
2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.