Michigan has won six straight against the Fighting Illini, but some of those wins came down to the wire. The last meeting between the two teams came back in 202

Michigan football has a bigger-than-expected game on Saturday against No. 21 Illinois and the Illini are treating it as one of their biggest games in quite some time.

As for Illinois, the Illini's only loss was by two scores on the road to undefeated Penn State. They have the head-to-head tiebreaker over Nebraska, another fringe contending team in the Big Ten facing potential playoff elimination this week. The Cornhuskers need to beat Indiana in Bloomington to give them the best chance at survival.