It’s August, and that means we’re less than a month away from the beginning of the 2018 college football season. We’ve finished the majority of our opponent previews, and that means that we only have two left... one of them being the away game at Illinois.

History

Despite being down all-time in the series against the Fighting Illini (Illinois has 38 wins to Iowa’s 33 with two total ties), Kirk Ferentz has had their number since taking over as head coach 20-years ago. Going into the 2018 matchup, Ferentz will be looking to tie the five game winning streak the Hawkeyes had from 2003-2007 and his tenth total win in the series (9-3 overall).