Illini Football Dataset (All Games Since 1892)

The "Football Dataset" contains every game played by the University of Illinois' football team from 1892 through the end of the 2020 season.

Dataset Format: Well-formatted CSV with column headers as the first row
Dataset Size: 1,259 rows × 9 columns
CSV File Location: https://waf.cs.illinois.edu/discovery/football.csv
Dataset Variables:
- Season : number ➜ The season when the game was played. Usually the same as Year, except for some rate January games (ex: bowl games)
- Date : string ➜ The date when the game was played
- Location : string ➜ vs. for home games; @ for away games; the city, state for games at neutral sites (ex: Chicago, IL)
- Opponent : string ➜ The name of the opponent (ex: Purdue)
- OpponentRank : number ➜ The NCAA rank of the opponent (only available for very recent seasons) or blank
- Result : string ➜ W for an Illini win; L for an Illini loss; T for a tied game
- IlliniScore : number ➜ The final score for the University of Illinois
- OpponentScore : number ➜ The final score for the opponent
- Note : string ➜ Notes for bowl games (ex: Rose Bowl), homecoming (Homecoming), or cancelled games (ex: Canceled (COVID-19))

The dataset can be loaded using the pandas library in Python:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://waf.cs.illinois.edu/discovery/football.csv")
df

	Season	Date	Location	Opponent	OpponentRank	Result	IlliniScore	OpponentScore	Note
0	2020	10/23/2020	@	Wisconsin	14.0	L	7.0	45.0	NaN
1	2020	10/31/2020	vs.	Purdue	NaN	L	24.0	31.0	NaN
2	2020	11/7/2020	vs.	Minnesota	NaN	L	14.0	41.0	NaN
3	2020	11/14/2020	@	Rutgers	NaN	W	23.0	20.0	NaN
4	2020	11/21/2020	@	Nebraska	NaN	W	41.0	23.0	NaN
...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
1254	1892	1892-10-29	@	Kansas City A.C.	NaN	W	42.0	0.0	NaN
1255	1892	1892-11-05	vs.	Englewood High	NaN	W	38.0	0.0	NaN
1256	1892	1892-11-16	@	Chicago	NaN	L	4.0	10.0	NaN
1257	1892	1892-11-18	vs.	DePauw	NaN	W	34.0	0.0	NaN
1258	1892	1892-11-24	vs.	Chicago	NaN	W	28.0	12.0	NaN

The full Football Dataset stored in a DataFrame (1,259 rows).