2015 Illinois State Redbirds football team


The 2015 Illinois State Redbirds football team represented Illinois State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Brock Spack and played their home games at Hancock Stadium. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 10–3, 7–1 in MVFC play to win a share of the conference title with North Dakota State. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost to Richmond in the quarterfinals.

Schedule

The Illinois State Redbird Football program averaged 9,194 fans for the 2015 home football games.

Game summaries

@ Iowa

Morgan State

@ Eastern Illinois

Overall recordLast meetingResult
53–40–92014ILST, 34–15

Northern Iowa

Overall recordLast meetingResult
12–202014 FCS PlayoffsILST, 41–21

@ Youngstown State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
12–122014ILST, 35–21

@ Missouri State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
18–16–12014ILST, 21–7

Western Illinois

Overall recordLast meetingResult
43–50–32014ILST, 37–34

Indiana State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
35–29–22014ILST, 20–18

@ South Dakota State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–22014ILST, 45–10

@ Southern Illinois

Overall recordLast meetingResult
34–40–32014ILST, 44–29

South Dakota

Overall recordLast meetingResult
4–02014ILST, 45–26

FCS Playoffs

Second Round–Western Illinois

Overall recordLast meetingResult
44–50–310/24/2015ILST, 48–28

Quarterfinals–Richmond

Ranking movements