College football season is heating up and so is the race to 40 winners between two Sports Illustrated writers! With conference play continuing to ramp up, our

College football's Week 4 schedule features a Friday night matchup between two Big Ten rivals with the Nebraska Cornhuskers welcoming the Illinois Fighting Illini to Lincoln. If you want to catch the action in person,

This Illinois football team is in a very similar boat to Nebraska. The Fighting Illini are ranked! We saw Illinois crack the top-25 back in 2022 as they had a pretty solid team that year, but in general, we don't see the Fighting Illini have football success very often. Well, that's changing this year.