Illini Football Dataset (1892-2020)

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).