For the first time in seven years, the Illini will wear the same uniforms in consecutive homecoming games. Albeit ones you don’t see every Saturday. Illinois will don the gray uniforms, honoring Red Grange, it debuted against Minnesota last year (above) when the Illini host Wisconsin at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Here’s how the Illini have fared in the last six homecoming games:
2014
UI 28, Minnesota 24
What happened: V’Angelo Bentley raced into the end zone after recovering a fourth-quarter fumble, Reilly O’Toole (above) played out of his head and an emotional Illini delivered arguably the biggest win in the Tim Beckman era.