Illinois Fighting Illini

Established: 1867 Location: Champaign, Ill.

Enrollment: 42,605 Stadium: Memorial Stadium (60,670) First season: 1890

All-time record: 582-536-51

National championships: 4 (1914, 1919, 1923, 1927)

Bowl appearances: 17 All-time bowl record: 8-9

Big Ten titles: (15) 1910, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1946, 1951, 1953, 1963, 1983, 1990, 2001

Series: Penn State leads 6-4

Last meeting: 2011: Penn State 10-7

Up next: Oct. 6, at Wisconsin, 3:30 p.m. (ABC)

2012 schedule: Sept. 1, Western Michigan (W 24-7); Sept. 8, at Arizona State (L 45-14); Sept. 15, Charleston Southern (W 44-0); Sept. 22, Louisiana Tech (L 52-24); Today, Penn State, noon; Oct. 6, at Wisconsin, 3:30 p.m.; Oct. 13, at Michigan, 3:30 p.m.; Oct. 27, Indiana, noon; Nov. 3, at Ohio State, TBA; Nov. 10, Minnesota, TBA; Nov. 17, at Purdue, TBA; Nov. 24, at Northwestern, TBA

Last season: 7-6 overall, 2-6 Big Ten (5th, Leaders Division) — Sept. 3, vs. Arkansas State, W 33-15; Sept. 10, South Dakota State, W 56-3; Sept. 17, vs. Arizona State, W 17-14; Sept. 24, vs. Western Michigan, W 23-20; Oct. 1, vs. Northwestern, W 38-35; Oct. 8, at Indiana, W 41-20; Oct. 15, vs. Ohio State, L 17-7; Oct. 22, at Purdue, L 21-14; Oct. 29, at Penn State, L 10-7; Nov. 12, vs. Michigan, L 31-14; Nov. 19, vs. Wisconsin, L 28-17; Nov. 26, at Minnesota, L 27-7; Dec. 31, Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, vs. UCLA, W 20-14.

— By Mike Burns