1994 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

1994 Illinois Fighting Illini football

Liberty Bowl Champions
Liberty Bowl, W 30–0 vs. East Carolina
Conference	Big Ten Conference
1994 record	7–5 (4–4 Big Ten)
Head coach	Lou Tepper (3rd year)
Home stadium	Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 70,904)

1994 Big Ten football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#2 Penn State $	8	–	0	–	0	12	–	0	–	0
#14 Ohio State	6	–	2	–	0	9	–	4	–	0
Wisconsin	5	–	2	–	1	8	–	3	–	1
#12 Michigan	5	–	3	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
Illinois	4	–	4	–	0	7	–	5	–	0
Purdue	3	–	3	–	2	5	–	4	–	2
Iowa	3	–	4	–	1	5	–	5	–	1
Indiana	3	–	5	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Northwestern	3	–	5	–	0	4	–	6	–	1
Minnesota	1	–	7	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Michigan State	0	–	8	–	0	0	–	11	–	0

$ – Conference champion Michigan State forfeited 5 wins, 4 conference wins Rankings from AP Poll

The 1994 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 1	7:30 PM	Washington State*	No. 22	Soldier Field • Chicago, IL		L 9–10	39,472
September 10	1:00 PM	Missouri*		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL (Rivalry)		W 42–0	64,305
September 17	1:00 PM	Northern Illinois*		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL		W 34–10	55,327
October 1	1:00 PM	Purdue	No. 25	Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL (Purdue Cannon)		L 16–22	58,338
October 8	2:30 PM	at No. 17 Ohio State		Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH (Illibuck)	ABC	W 24–10	93,351
October 15	1:00 PM	Iowa		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL		W 47–7	59,573
October 22	2:30 PM	No. 11 Michigan		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL	ABC	L 14–19	72,677
October 29	1:00 PM	at Northwestern		Dyche Stadium • Evanston, IL		W 28–7	40,365
November 5	1:30 PM	at Minnesota		Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome • Minneapolis, MN		W 21–17	35,069
November 12	2:30 PM	No. 2 Penn State		Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL	ABC	L 31–35	72,364
November 19	2:30 PM	at Wisconsin		Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI	ABC	L 13–19	77,745
December 31	12:00 PM	vs. East Carolina*		Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium • Memphis, TN (Liberty Bowl)	ESPN	W 30–0	33,280
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Central Time.

↑ "1994 Illinois Football Schedule". College Football Reference. Retrieved January 6, 2014.

Illinois Fighting Illini football

Venues	Illinois Field (1890–1922) Memorial Stadium (1923–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Missouri Northwestern: (Sweet Sioux Tomahawk, 1945–2008; Land of Lincoln Trophy, 2009–present) Ohio State (Illibuck) Purdue (Purdue Cannon) Michigan

Culture & lore	Illinois Loyalty "Oskee Wow-Wow" Marching Illini Gene Honda Fighting Illini Sports Network Chief Illiniwek

People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

National championship seasons in bold

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