The 88 Illini: #4-#1

There's my office for the day. This is kind of the photo of Ed Hightower looking at the monitor which has a photo of Ed Hightower looking at the monitor which has a photo of Ed Hightower looking at the monitor, but that's my screen before typing these words. I have the most of the rest of this post already written, but I wanted to save some of it to write from the tailgate.

As of these words I'm typing right now, we are less than 10 hours from kickoff. So it's time for you to learn my four Most Important Illini Football Players For The 2026 Season. You've figured out which four players are left. Now you get to learn the order.

#1 should be the most obvious "Robert will have him #1" in the history of these lists.