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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 2009 Illinois
Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois
during the 2009-2010 college football season. The team's head football
coach was Ron Zook. The Illini played their home games at Memorial
Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. This was Ron Zook's fifth season as the
Illini head coach. The Illini finished the season 3- 9 (2-6 Big Ten).
The Illini failed to live up to the lofty preseason expectations,
receiving almost enough votes in the AP Poll to be ranked (and were said
to be the unofficial #26 ranked team in the AP Poll because of this),
and even were considered a dark horse candidate for the Big Ten
championship. But after their blowout loss to Missouri, they failed to
receive any votes, and failed to show any improvement until the Michigan
State game, which followed blowout losses to Penn State and Ohio State,
but by late in the season, they were able to upset Michigan and
Minnesota while also giving Cincinnati a game.
