2016 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

2016 Illinois Fighting Illini football
Conference	Big Ten Conference West Division
2016 record	0–0 (0–0 Big Ten)
Head coach	Lovie Smith (1st year)
Offensive coordinator	Garrick McGee (1st year)
Defensive coordinator	Hardy Nickerson (1st year)
Home stadium	Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 60,670)

2016 Big Ten football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
East Division
Indiana		0	–	0					0	–	0
Maryland		0	–	0					0	–	0
Michigan		0	–	0					0	–	0
Michigan State		0	–	0					0	–	0
Ohio State		0	–	0					0	–	0
Penn State		0	–	0					0	–	0
Rutgers		0	–	0					0	–	0
West Division
Illinois		0	–	0					0	–	0
Iowa		0	–	0					0	–	0
Minnesota		0	–	0					0	–	0
Nebraska		0	–	0					0	–	0
Northwestern		0	–	0					0	–	0
Purdue		0	–	0					0	–	0
Wisconsin		0	–	0					0	–	0
Championship: December 3, 2016
$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016 Illinois Fighting Illini football team will represent the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They are led by TBA and play their home games at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. They are members of the West Division of the Big Ten Conference.

Schedule

Illinois announced its 2016 football schedule on July 11, 2013. The 2016 schedule consists of 7 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Fighting Illini will host Big Ten foes Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, and Purdue, and will travel to Michigan, Nebraska, Northwestern, Rutgers, and Wisconsin.^[1]

The team will host all three non–conference games which are against the Murray State Racers from the Ohio Valley Conference, North Carolina Tar Heels from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), and the Western Michigan Broncos from the Mid-American Conference (MAC).

Date	Time	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 3		Murray State*		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL
September 10		North Carolina*		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL
September 17		Western Michigan*		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL
October 1		at Nebraska		Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, NE
October 8		Purdue		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL (Rivalry)
October 15		at Rutgers		High Point Solutions Stadium • Piscataway, NJ
October 22		at Michigan		Michigan Stadium • Ann Arbor, MI
October 29		Minnesota		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL
November 5		Michigan State		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL
November 12		at Wisconsin		Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI
November 19		Iowa		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL
November 26		at Northwestern		Ryan Field • Evanston, IL (Rivalry)
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Central Time.

Schedule Source:^[2]

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.

	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Final
AP
Coaches'
CFP	Not released															Not released

References

1. "BIG TEN ANNOUNCES 2016 AND '17 FOOTBALL SCHEDULES" (Press release). University of Illinois Department of Athletics. July 11, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
2. "2016 Illinois Fighting Illini Football Schedule". FB Schedules. Retrieved December 6, 2015.