Date/Time: Friday, Sept. 8 | 6:30 p.m. CT
Location: Lawrence, Kansas (David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium) (so Judge Judy knows to drive to Bloody Kansas)
TV: ESPN2 (Anish Shroff (play-by-play), Andre Ware (analyst), and Paul Carcaterra (reporter))
Betting odds listed at VSIN:
Opening line: Illini +4 o/u 55.5
South Point: Illini +3
Circa: Illini +3 57
Golden Nugget & Westgate: same as Circa
Wynn and Station: Illini +3 56.5
All the stuff stolen from FightingIllini.com:
ALL-TIME SERIES vs. KANSAS
Series: 3-2
Last: Kansas 47, Illinois 7 (9/21/68 at Illinois)
at Lawrence: 0-1 (L, 26-4 in 1892)
Bielema vs. Kansas: 0-0
Bad news galore!
• Saturday’s game will be the sixth meeting between Illinois and Kansas.
• The teams have not met since 1968 in Champaign, when Illinois snapped a three-game winning streak over Kansas with a 47-7 loss.
• Illinois will visit Lawrence, Kansas for the first time in 131 years.
• The last time Illinois visited Lawrence, it was the 16th game in program history.
• When Illinois last visited Lawrence in 1892, it was part of a three-game, four-day swing through the state of Kansas. The Illini played Baker in Baldwin City on Oct. 26 (W, 26-10), then played at KU the next day on Oct. 27 (L, 26-4), before taking a day off Oct. 28 and playing Kansas City Athletic Club in Kansas City, Kansas on Oct. 29 (W, 42-0).
Illinois-Kansas all-time results:
*Saturday, September 21 1968 Home L 7-47
*Saturday, October 5 1929 Home W 25-0
*Saturday, October 6 1917 Home W 22-0
*Saturday, October 7 1916 Home W 30-0
*Thursday, October 27 1892 Away L 4-26
Kansas wearing black uniforms. I have read the QB will play.