1996 Illinois

• Biggest winBeat Akron 38–⁠7Sep 21

  By 31 points, its widest win.

Date	Opponent	Result	Elo
Aug 31	at12Michigan	L 8–⁠20		33%
Sep 7	vs19USC	L 3–⁠55		49%
Sep 14	atArizona	L 0–⁠41		34%
Sep 21	vsAkron	W 38–⁠7		80%
Oct 5	vsIndiana	W 46–⁠43		61%
Oct 12	atMichigan State	L 14–⁠42		39%
Oct 26	at11Northwestern	L 24–⁠27		19%
Nov 2	vs25Iowa	L 21–⁠31		41%
Nov 9	vs2Ohio State	L 0–⁠48		16%
Nov 16	atMinnesota	L 21–⁠23		48%
Nov 23	vsWisconsin	L 15–⁠35		43%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

• Neil RackersKicker

Before 2004 our records hold honors and the draft; these are the players whose college years here, from their Wikipedia articles or their honors, include 1996.

From Wikipedia’s 1996 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP final
Ohio State	7–⁠1	11–⁠1	2
Northwestern	7–⁠1	9–⁠3	15
Penn State	6–⁠2	11–⁠2	7
Iowa	6–⁠2	9–⁠3	18
Michigan	5–⁠3	8–⁠4	20
Michigan State	5–⁠3	6–⁠6
Wisconsin	3–⁠5	8–⁠5
Purdue	2–⁠6	3–⁠8
Minnesota	1–⁠7	4–⁠7
Indiana	1–⁠7	3–⁠8
Illinois	1–⁠7	2–⁠9

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.