2019 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

The 2019 Illinois Fighting Illini football team will represent the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Fighting Illini will play their home games at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois, and will compete in the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They will be led by fourth-year head coach Lovie Smith.

Previous season
The 2018 team finished the season 4–8, 2–7 in Big Ten play to finish in last place in the West Division.

Schedule
Illinois' 2019 schedule will begin with three non-conference games, starting with Akron of the Mid-American Conference at home, a road game to UConn of the American Athletic Conference, and then at home again for Eastern Michigan of the Mid-American Conference. In Big Ten Conference play, Illinois will play all members of the West Division and draws Michigan, Rutgers, and Michigan State from the East Division.

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