2001 Illinois Fighting Illini football team
| 2001 Illinois Fighting Illini football | |||
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| Big Ten Champions | |||
| Sugar Bowl, L 34–47 vs. LSU | |||
| Conference | Big Ten Conference | ||
| Ranking | |||
| Coaches | #12[1] | ||
| AP | #12[2] | ||
| 2001 record | 10–2 (7–1 Big Ten) | ||
| Head coach | Ron Turner | ||
| Home stadium | Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 70,904) |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #12/12 Illinois † | 7 | – | 1 | 10 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #20/20 Michigan | 6 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 5 | – | 3 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 4 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Purdue | 4 | – | 4 | 6 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana | 4 | – | 4 | 5 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 0* | – | 4 | 0* | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 3 | – | 5 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin | 3 | – | 5 | 5 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minnesota | 2 | – | 6 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northwestern | 2 | – | 6 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† – BCS representative as champion
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The 2001 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. They participated as members of the Big Ten Conference. Their home games were played at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. Led by senior quarterback Kurt Kittner, the team won the Big Ten Conference title and earned a Sugar Bowl berth, but lost to LSU, 47–34.
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | |
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| September 1 | 2:30 PM | at California* | Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA | FSN | W 44–17 | 38,160[3] | ||
| September 8 | 11:00 AM | Northern Illinois* | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL | ESPN+ | W 17–12 | 45,674[4] | ||
| September 22 | 11:00 AM | #25 Louisville* | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL | ESPN | W 34–10 | 43,232[5] | ||
| September 29 | 2:30 PM | at #17 Michigan | #22 | Michigan Stadium • Ann Arbor, MI | ABC | L 20–45 | 107,085[6] | |
| October 6 | 11:00 AM | Minnesota | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL | ESPN+ | W 32–14 | 53,225[7] | ||
| October 13 | 11:00 AM | at Indiana | Memorial Stadium • Bloomington, IN | ESPN2 | W 35–14 | 31,116[8] | ||
| October 20 | 11:00 AM | Wisconsin | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL | ESPN | W 42–35 | 70,904[9] | ||
| November 3 | 11:00 AM | at #20 Purdue | #21 | Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN (Purdue Cannon) | ESPN | W 38–13 | 61,568[10] | |
| November 10 | 2:30 PM | Penn State | #15 | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL | ABC | W 33–28 | 70,904[11] | |
| November 17 | 11:00 AM | at #25 Ohio State | #12 | Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH (Illibuck) | ESPN | W 34–22 | 104,407[12] | |
| November 24 | 11:00 AM | Northwestern | #10 | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL (Sweet Sioux Tomahawk) | ESPN2 | W 34–28 | 45,755[13] | |
| January 1 | 7:30 PM | vs. #12 LSU* | #7 | Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans, LA (Sugar Bowl) | ABC | L 34–47 | 77,688[14] | |
*Non-conference game.  Homecoming. #Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to game. All times are in Central Time. |
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References
- ^ Year-by-Year Final Coaches' Polls – AFCA.com—Official Site of the American Football Coaches Association
- ^ CNNSI.com – College Football – Associated Press Top 25 College Football Poll – Tuesday January 8, 2002
- ^ http://www.calbears.com/sports/m-footbl/stats/090101aaa.html
- ^ http://cfreference.net/cfr/schedule.s?id=63371
- ^ http://www.illinihq.com/sports/illini-sports/football/2001-09-23/illinois-v-louisville-game-3-statistics.html
- ^ http://cfreference.net/cfr/schedule.s?id=63468
- ^ <http://www.gophersports.com/sports/m-footbl/stats/080411acc.html
- ^ http://www.usatoday.com/sports/scores101/101286/101286355.htm
- ^ http://www.fightingillini.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/FBAttendanceRecords.html
- ^ http://cfreference.net/cfr/schedule.s?id=63737
- ^ http://www.fightingillini.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/FBAttendanceRecords.html
- ^ http://cfreference.net/cfr/schedule.s?id=63848
- ^ http://cfreference.net/cfr/schedule.s?id=63883
- ^ http://cfreference.net/cfr/schedule.s?id=63974
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