Weirdly, we played ~13 games per season from 1900-1904, but you’re right other than that it was
more like 7 games for the first half of the century, then 9, then 11  Previous Message We played 24 over 1989-90; and a lesser number during the early years of college football (I'd wager). Previous Message
We had 18 in
1901 & 1902
1902 & 1903
1989 & 1990
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BLAM, there's my opinion people - behold
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 Illinois football mid-season win total check-in - biclops October 5, 2025, 8:54:15 [poll]
- How do we feel about the Music City Bowl (Nashville) vs LSU? - biclops October 6, 2025, 18:50:30
- Cool chart here, but we took a wild route to landing exactly at the center point. - OB25 October 6, 2025, 18:33:35
- Amtrak tailgate again* - JeffFrank October 6, 2025, 16:58:48
- I thought we'd go 4-2 in the first half and second half of the season. So moved from 8-4 to 9-3 - ibdoc October 6, 2025, 16:20:24
- I was 10-2 before I think. I'm 9-3 now. I am still triggered by that IU score.* - ATL October 6, 2025, 12:41:47
- Preseason, I was 7-5. I'm willing to go to 8 now.* - OWWDig October 6, 2025, 12:40:15
- Staying with 8. Need more than 1.5 seasons to be convinced things are truly different* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes October 6, 2025, 12:02:56
- still at 9 * - jdl October 6, 2025, 12:01:54
- being 5-1 right now is awesome * - illiniranger October 6, 2025, 11:42:51
- still sticking with 8 but wanting to move to 9 * - ijustkrushalot October 6, 2025, 10:03:22
- Sounds like Bert will have tons of recruits on campus next weekend* - opossum jenkins October 5, 2025, 16:59:23
- nm* - Blazer October 5, 2025, 14:57:47
- I said 8-4 before the season and am sticking with that. - Blazer October 5, 2025, 14:57:04
- Bob Assmussen ranked Penn State 19* - Poldark October 5, 2025, 14:57:00
- Man that IU game really skews the numbers doesn’t it? - ATL October 5, 2025, 14:40:53
- Orange Out Saturday * - Poldark October 5, 2025, 14:16:57
- I’ll put this here - he’s not doing good enough, but I’ll offer a slight defense of Henry - OB25 October 5, 2025, 12:54:16
- This is a tough schedule. Maryland and Rutgers won’t be pushovers either. - Toonces October 5, 2025, 10:29:03
- Can’t believe the season is halfway over* - opossum jenkins October 5, 2025, 10:25:27
- I said 8 before the year. I think we get to 9 now - illiniranger October 5, 2025, 9:54:21
- 5-1 was where we needed to be but the D missing X still limits this team’s upside. - uofi1998 October 5, 2025, 9:22:17
- I went with 8, but 9 is fully on the table* - snipes824 October 5, 2025, 9:19:45
- Still at 8. OSU, UW and probably barf a fart somewhere* - AintHatin October 5, 2025, 9:00:59
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on October 6, 2025, 10:10:19, in reply to "Nothing against nobody, but... we'd be playing 26 games over those two seasons."
- IlliniSax05 October 6, 2025, 12:25:07