Shannon Ryan

Bret Bielema used a GPS to get to work Monday, his first time driving from a downtown Champaign hotel to his new office. He was relieved one of his keys...

The shortest but most tumultuous Big Ten football season has come to an end. In the final weekend of games, fittingly, three games could not be played because of COVID-19....

Northwestern will play its fifth bowl game in six seasons, accepting an invitation to play Auburn in the Citrus Bowl. The No. 14 Wildcats on Sunday announced they will head...

Ohio State and Notre Dame are in. The Buckeyes and Irish seemed like safe bets to make the four-team College Football Playoff, but speculation still swirled about their invitations until...

Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald seemed like the only person who believed the words coming out of his mouth at the end of a disastrous season a year ago, vowing to...

Bret Bielema grew up in Prophetstown, lll., about 180 miles northwest of Champaign. He was a defensive lineman at Iowa, playing for legendary Hawkeyes coach Hayden Frye from 1989-92. And...

The Big Ten football season started and will end in the middle of a pandemic. There were player- and parent-led protests about the initial decision to postpone the season and...

The 2020 Big Ten season has been complicated — from cancellations to debates about which teams should be playing in the championship game. It culminates Saturday in Indianapolis, where No....

Asked about the possibility of beating Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game Saturday, Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald imagined the celebratory aftermath. "It would be a hell of a...

Illinois' leading wide receiver Josh Imatorbhebhe on Thursday announced he is entering the NFL draft and won't play in the team's final game of the 2020 season. His decision comes...